UN chief Ban Ki-moon has described nuclear weapons as a mental deadlock and called on parliamentarians of member countries to uphold their key role in nuclear disarmament through policy-making.
The UN General Secretary addressed MPs from over 100 member countries at 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 and security otherwise making adverse impact for putting the world into risks.
Multi-decade long experiences have shown that change only came under strong public pressures on the global scale, he emphasised.
He called on parliaments and parliamentarians as law makers to make a decisive role and be in the centre of any efforts for nuclear disarmament in order to put an end to the wastes of natural resources and tax payers’ money in the world.
The UN leader advocated the US for publicising over 5,000 nuclear warheads in its arsenal during the 2010 Nuclear Non-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 grasp this opportunity to reach the target for nuclear disarmament towards a non-nuclear world.
The meeting was co-sponsored by the Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in response to the 2010 UN conference to review the implementation of the treaty.
IPU was established in 1889, drawing 155 national parliaments and nine regional parliaments. The PNND, founded in 2003, is an international parliamentary network, comprised of 800 members of parliament from 75 countries./.
The UN General Secretary addressed MPs from over 100 member countries at 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 and security otherwise making adverse impact for putting the world into risks.
Multi-decade long experiences have shown that change only came under strong public pressures on the global scale, he emphasised.
He called on parliaments and parliamentarians as law makers to make a decisive role and be in the centre of any efforts for nuclear disarmament in order to put an end to the wastes of natural resources and tax payers’ money in the world.
The UN leader advocated the US for publicising over 5,000 nuclear warheads in its arsenal during the 2010 Nuclear Non-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 grasp this opportunity to reach the target for nuclear disarmament towards a non-nuclear world.
The meeting was co-sponsored by the Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in response to the 2010 UN conference to review the implementation of the treaty.
IPU was established in 1889, drawing 155 national parliaments and nine regional parliaments. The PNND, founded in 2003, is an international parliamentary network, comprised of 800 members of parliament from 75 countries./.
