UN chief Ban Ki-moon has describednuclear weapons as a mental deadlock and called on parliamentarians ofmember countries to uphold their key role in nuclear disarmament throughpolicy-making.
The UN General Secretary addressed MPs from over 100 member countriesat a meeting held at the UN Headquarters on May 6 under the theme“Advancing nuclear disarmament: the power of parliaments”.
Ban Ki-moon said nuclear weapons did not enhance peace andsecurity otherwise making adverse impact for putting the world intorisks.
Multi-decade long experiences have shown that change only came understrong public pressures on the global scale, he emphasised.
He called on parliaments and parliamentarians as law makers to make adecisive role and be in the centre of any efforts for nucleardisarmament in order to put an end to the wastes of natural resourcesand tax payers’ money in the world.
The UN leader advocated the US for publicising over 5,000nuclear warheads in its arsenal during the 2010 NuclearNon-Proliferation (NPT) Review Conference as a signal of transparency,thus contributing to increasing the global confidence.
He expressed expectation that negotiators at the meeting would graspthis opportunity to reach the target for nuclear disarmament towards anon-nuclear world.
The meeting was co-sponsored by the Parliamentarians for NuclearNon-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) and the Inter-ParliamentaryUnion (IPU) in response to the 2010 UN conference to review theimplementation of the treaty.
IPU was established in 1889, drawing 155 national parliaments andnine regional parliaments. The PNND, founded in 2003, is aninternational parliamentary network, comprised of 800 members ofparliament from 75 countries./.
The UN General Secretary addressed MPs from over 100 member countriesat a meeting held at the UN Headquarters on May 6 under the theme“Advancing nuclear disarmament: the power of parliaments”.
Ban Ki-moon said nuclear weapons did not enhance peace andsecurity otherwise making adverse impact for putting the world intorisks.
Multi-decade long experiences have shown that change only came understrong public pressures on the global scale, he emphasised.
He called on parliaments and parliamentarians as law makers to make adecisive role and be in the centre of any efforts for nucleardisarmament in order to put an end to the wastes of natural resourcesand tax payers’ money in the world.
The UN leader advocated the US for publicising over 5,000nuclear warheads in its arsenal during the 2010 NuclearNon-Proliferation (NPT) Review Conference as a signal of transparency,thus contributing to increasing the global confidence.
He expressed expectation that negotiators at the meeting would graspthis opportunity to reach the target for nuclear disarmament towards anon-nuclear world.
The meeting was co-sponsored by the Parliamentarians for NuclearNon-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) and the Inter-ParliamentaryUnion (IPU) in response to the 2010 UN conference to review theimplementation of the treaty.
IPU was established in 1889, drawing 155 national parliaments andnine regional parliaments. The PNND, founded in 2003, is aninternational parliamentary network, comprised of 800 members ofparliament from 75 countries./.
