Major World Powers Protest United Nations Talks to Ban Nuclear Weapons ANI
go to original March 28, 2017

US government declassifies never-before-seen nuke testing video (Fox News)

Dozens of members states including the United States on Monday boycotted United Nations talks for a treaty that would ban nuclear weapons saying the time was not right to outlaw nuclear arms.

"There is nothing I want more for my family than a world with no nuclear weapons. But we have to be realistic. Is there anyone who thinks that North Korea would ban nuclear weapons?" The New York Times reported U.S Ambassador Nikki R. Haley as saying to reports outside the General Assembly as the talks were getting underway.

The talks, supported by more than 120 countries, were first announced in October and are led by Austria, Brazil, Ireland, Mexico, South Africa and Sweden.

Last October, Britain, France, Israel, Russia and US all voted against the UN's proposal to create a legally binding treaty banning nuclear weapons. The remaining nuclear powers - China, India and Pakistan - all abstained and also intend to boycott the talks. More than 30 other countries have announced plans to skip the negotiations, including Japan, the only country to have suffered a nuclear attack, in 1945.

The talks come against the backdrop of increasing worries over the intentions of a reclusive North Korea, which has tested nuclear weapons and missiles that could conceivably carry them.

...If a sufficient number of countries were to ratify a nuclear weapons ban, supporters contend, it would create political and moral pressure on holdouts, including the big nuclear powers.

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Related: The World Faces a Historic Opportunity to Ban Nuclear Weapons (Inter Press Service)

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