{"id":5077,"date":"2023-09-15T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T03:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/?p=5077"},"modified":"2023-12-21T12:46:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T03:46:17","slug":"banish-nuclear-weapons-to-history-books-once-and-for-all-urges-un-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/news\/un-civil-society\/banish-nuclear-weapons-to-history-books-once-and-for-all-urges-un-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Banish Nuclear Weapons \u2018to History Books, Once and for All\u2019, Urges UN Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Following is UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres\u2019 message on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/observances\/nuclear-weapons-elimination-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons<\/a>, observed on 26 September.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNITED NATIONS. 15 September 2023 (IDN | UN) \u2014 The International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons reminds us that a peaceful future depends on ending the nuclear threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Geopolitical mistrust and competition have spiked the nuclear risk to cold war levels. Meanwhile, hard-won progress over many decades to prevent the use, spread and testing of nuclear weapons is being undone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On this important Day, we reaffirm our commitment to a world free of nuclear weapons and the humanitarian catastrophe their use would unleash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means nuclear-weapon States leading the way by meeting their disarmament obligations, and committing to never use nuclear weapons under any circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It means strengthening the nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime, including through the Treaties on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It means all countries that have not yet ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty to do so without delay, and for those States that possess nuclear weapons to ensure a moratorium on all nuclear testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It means taking into account the evolving nuclear order, and addressing the blurring lines between strategic and conventional weapons and the nexus with new and emerging technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Above all, it means deploying the timeless tools of dialogue, diplomacy and negotiation to ease tensions and end the nuclear threat. The recently launched policy brief on a New Agenda for Peace calls on Member States to urgently recommit to this important cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only way to eliminate the nuclear risk is to eliminate nuclear weapons.&nbsp; Let\u2019s work together to banish these devices of destruction to the history books, once and for all. [IDN-InDepthNews]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: Sculpture depicting St. George slaying the dragon. The dragon is created from fragments of Soviet SS-20 and United States Pershing nuclear missiles. Credit: UN Photo | Milton Grant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres\u2019 message on the&nbsp;International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, observed on 26 September. UNITED NATIONS. 15 September 2023 (IDN | UN) \u2014 The International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons reminds us that a peaceful future depends on ending the nuclear threat. Geopolitical mistrust and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-un-civil-society"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5079,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077\/revisions\/5079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}