UN High-Level Meeting Reflects Broad Support for Total Nuclear Disarmament

By Santo D. Banerjee

NEW YORK (IDN) – The United Nations has pursued the goal of nuclear disarmament since the adoption of the very first General Assembly resolution in 1946. But aware that countries possessing nuclear weapons have well-funded, long-term plans to modernize their nuclear arsenals, in 2013 the UN declared September 26 as the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. [P 11] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | SPANISH | THAI

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UN High-Level Meeting Reflects Broad Support for Total Nuclear Disarmament

By Santo D. Banerjee

NEW YORK (IDN) – The United Nations has pursued the goal of nuclear disarmament since the adoption of the very first General Assembly resolution in 1946. But aware that countries possessing nuclear weapons have well-funded, long-term plans to modernize their nuclear arsenals, in 2013 the UN declared September 26 as the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. [P 11] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | SPANISH | THAI

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Japan Considers Ways of Shedding the Straitjacket and Go the Whole Hog for Nuclear Abolition

By Katsuhiro Asagiri

TOKYO (IDN) – Japan’s profound interest in the international community’s efforts to help usher in a world free of nuclear weapons was underlined in the run-up to the commemoration of the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on September 26, which was observed first time in 2014 in accordance with a decision of the UN General Assembly. [P 10] ITALIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | SPANISH

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Japan Considers Ways of Shedding the Straitjacket and Go the Whole Hog for Nuclear Abolition

By Katsuhiro Asagiri

TOKYO (IDN) – Japan’s profound interest in the international community’s efforts to help usher in a world free of nuclear weapons was underlined in the run-up to the commemoration of the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on September 26, which was observed first time in 2014 in accordance with a decision of the UN General Assembly. [P 10] ITALIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | SPANISH

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The World Needs a Strong Legal Framework for Complete Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

Viewpoint by Kairat Abdrakhmanov

Following are extensive excerpts from the statement by Kairat Abdrakhmanov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan at the High-level Meeting of the UN Security Council on “Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Non-proliferation of WMD” on 26 September 2018 in New York.

NEW YORK (IDN) – Countering the spread and use of WMD: This goal is close to Kazakhstan’s heart, and is one of the key priorities of my country’s foreign policy. Kazakhstan’s firm and unwavering commitment to international peace and security commenced upon our independence in 1991.

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Peacebuilders for a Nuclear-Weapon Free World

Viewpoint by Rene Wadlow*

GENEVA (IDN) – As the world celebrated the UN-designated International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on September 26, there were still some 16,000 nuclear weapons in the world, largely in the hands of the United States and the Russian Federation, some on “ready alert”.

There are plans to “modernise” nuclear weapons, and there are at least seven other states with nuclear weapons: North Korea, Pakistan, India and China in Asia, Israel in the Middle East and France and the United Kingdom in Europe.

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Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding – Malay

Seruan untuk Menjadikan Larangan Ujian Nuklear Global Sah Di Sisi Undang-undang

Oleh Ramesh Jaura

BERLIN | VIENNA | ASTANA (IDN) – Menteri Luar Negeri Kazakhstan, Kairat Abdrakhmanov, dan Setiausaha Eksekutif CTBTO, Dr Lassina Zerbo, telah menyeru semua Penandatangan Negara “untuk berusaha untuk memastikan larangan ujian nuklear menjadi sah di sisi undang-undang dengan mencapai penguatkuasaan” Perjanjian Larangan Ujian Nuklear Komprehensif (CTBT) yang berada dalam keadaan limbo selama 22 tahun.

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Upcoming UN General Assembly Promises a Whiff of History

Fourth Woman President in 73 years – 18-year-old Female Activist to Speak at High Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament

By Santo D. Banerjee

NEW YORK (IDN) – The 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly opening on September 18 promises to be historic. Not only because its President, María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, the Foreign Minister of Ecuador, is the fourth woman on the top in the history of the UN’s main deliberative and policy-making body.

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Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

グローバルな核実験禁止の発効を呼びかけ

【ベルリン／ウィーン／アスタナIDN＝ラメシュ・ジャウラ】

カザフスタンのカイラット・アブドラフマノフ外相と包括的核実験禁止条約機構（CTBTO）準備委員会のラッシーナ・ゼルボ事務局長が、すべての包括的核実験禁止条約（CTBT）署名国に対して、２２年間も停滞しているCTBTを「発効させて核実験の禁止に法的拘束力を持たせるべく全力を傾けるよう」訴えた。

２０１９～２０年に国連安保理の非常任理理事国を務めるドイツのハイコ・マース外相も、この訴えを支持した。マース外相は、８月２９日の「核実験に反対する国際デー」に合わせた声明のなかで、「核兵器の脅威は、とりわけ核実験に関して明確です。核実験は、事実上禁止されているにも関わらず、残念ながら依然として行われています。直近の核実験は、北朝鮮がほんの１年前に行ったものです。」と力説した。

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My Life Will Never be the Same Again

By Ilya Kursenko

ON TRAIN FROM KURCHATOV TO ASTANA (IDN) – A Russian member of the CTBTO Youth Group, llya Kursenko, attended the five-day 2018 Youth International Conference of the CTBTO Youth Group and the Group of Eminent Persons (GEM) which concluded on September 2 in Astana, capital city of the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan.

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