UN Institute Pleads for Global Nuclear Non-Proliferation

By Jamshed Baruah

GENEVA (IDN) – “The lack of nuclear weapons use since Hiroshima and Nagasaki cannot on its own be interpreted as evidence that the likelihood of a detonation event is minimal,” warns the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), an autonomous institute within the United Nations based in Geneva.

The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on which the United States dropped atomic bombs on August 6 and 9, 1945, embody the abhorrent humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons use, warning of the brutal consequences should such weapons of mass destruction be ever deployed again. [P 01] ARABIC | NORWEGIAN |  JAPANESE TEXT VERSON PDF

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Three NGOs Urge Ban on Funding Nuclear Weapons Production

By J Nastranis

NEW YORK (IDN) – Global consensus on a legally-binding treaty on prohibiting the production of nuclear weapons has yet to be achieved. But three non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are pressing for a ban on the financing of atomic arsenals when such a legal instrument is agreed.

The three groups are the Basel Peace Office, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) and UNFOLD ZERO. They have submitted a joint working paper for the United Nations Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, Leading Towards their Total Elimination.

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UN Takes First Major Step Towards a Nuclear Ban Treaty

｜国連｜核兵器禁止条約に向け大きな第一歩

【ニューヨークIDN＝ロドニー・レイノルズ】

主な核保有国４カ国を含む４０カ国以上が示し合わせて参加を拒否したにも関わらず、核兵器を禁止する国際条約の交渉を目的とした国連会議は、世界で最も危険な大量破壊兵器を廃絶する法的拘束力のある文書の策定を目指す史上初の試みにおいて、大きな突破口を作り出した。

「核兵器廃絶国際キャンペーン」（ICAN）は、「大量破壊兵器の禁止や海洋法の例にあるように、条約がしばしば、非締約国の行動をも変えることがあります。」と述べ、たとえ核兵器国の参加がなくとも核兵器禁止条約は非常に大きな影響力を持つようになる、との予測を示した。

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Banning Nuclear Weapons – An Auspicious Start

By Sergio Duarte, former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs*

NEW YORK (IDN) – Despite being shunned by the nine possessors of nuclear weapons and most of their allies, the first part of the negotiations mandated by the United Nations General Assembly on a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination, ended on an optimistic tone on March 31.

Delegations from 120-plus States will return to New York in mid-June to start discussing the draft treaty to be presented by the President of the Conference, Ambassador Elayne Whyte-Gomez of Costa Rica.

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Nuclear Disarmament, Trump and the Nordic Countries

핵군비축소.트럼프정권.북유럽제국들

【레이캬빅IDN＝로와나빌】

핵군축으로의 기여라고 하는점에서 도널드 트럼프정권은 무엇을 해야할것인가에 대해 질문을 받은 스웨덴의 봇세 해드베르크 주아일랜드대사는「이문제에 관한 미국의 신정권의 견해에 관하여 현시점으로는 북유럽의 모든국가들과는 공통의 입장은 아니라고 이해하고 있습니다. 미디어로 부터의 정보를 보는 한도내에서는 새로운 대통령은 미국의 핵무기를 줄이기보다는 핵능력 강화를 위한 투자를 진행 시키려 하는것같습니다.」라고 대답을 하였다.

스웨덴은 3월21일,22일에 제네바에서 개최된 군비축소회의 에 출석하였던 북유럽의 유일한 나라이다. 필랜드와 노르웨이는 제네바 군축회의의 구성국이지만 회의에는 참가를 하지아니하였다.

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How to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

By Rameez Raja*

NEW DELHI (IDN-INPS | Rabwah Times) – After the World War II, nuclear weapons were worshiped to be desirable objects for power and security. All the nuclear weapon states are reluctant to abolish their nuclear warheads and are busy in the arms race. Currently, there are 32 states which have nuclear power reactors and nine states among them have been successful in overtly procuring and producing nuclear weapons and a few states like Iran, South Korea, and Taiwan were suspected of developing nuclear weapons. Moreover, the states like Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine that had inherited nukes from the former Soviet Union have increased the anxiety of the international community.

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