The “divided house” of nuclear-weapon States needed urgent action, restraint and leadership, said Brazil’s representative. It was high time for the international community to recognize its complicity in allowing nuclear testing in the Pacific for decades and to provide assistance to its people. Having lost many to illness as a result of that tragic legacy, he was standing up to the Goliaths of the world and declaring that enough was enough. Kiribati had endured years of nuclear-weapons tests. ![]() Kiribati’s representative expressed profound concern about the qualitative and quantitative advancements of nuclear arsenals and the exorbitant spending on those programmes. She spotlighted the spike in spending by nuclear-armed States to modernize, upgrade, refurbish and extend the lives of those weapons. While prohibition of nuclear weapons was an essential foundation for their total elimination, the former should not be “held hostage” by the latter. ![]() The representative of Namibia said that, despite the complementarity of disarmament treaties, the concepts of prohibition and elimination should not be confused. No United Nations Member State was too big to disarm on its own and none too small to make a contribution, the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) was told today as it concluded its thematic debate on nuclear weapons and began consideration of other weapons of mass destruction. Israel Cites Non-Compliance as Basis for Rejecting Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone
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