UN Secretary General Guterres called on all countries of the organization for dialogue on nuclear weapons
Antonio Guterres. Photo: Mohamed Azakir / Reuters
UN Secretary General António Guterres has called for a dialogue on nuclear arms control by all countries that make up the world organization. This is reported by TASS with reference to the official representative of the Secretary General Stefan Dujarrik.
So he commented on the absence in the joint statement of the nuclear “five” of references to other states that own or presumably possess these weapons.
“The Secretary General has clearly stated that he would like to see the complete elimination of nuclear weapons and, as he noted in his statement, this requires a dialogue with the participation of countries that have nuclear weapons and all other UN countries,” Dujarrick said.
On January 3, the leaders of the nuclear “five” – Russia, China, the United States, Great Britain and France – spoke out against the arms race and called for everything possible to be done to prevent a nuclear war in the future. Their joint statement was published on the Kremlin website. As representatives of the five states noted, nuclear weapons should serve exclusively defensive purposes and be aimed only at curbing the aggression of all players in the international arena.
