Meeting of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Re-postponed to August next year 9:25 on October 30 due to the spread of new corona infection
The NPT = Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which has been considered for postponement, will be held in August next year to prevent the transmission of the new coronavirus.
The NPT recognizes five countries, including the United States and Russia, as nuclear-weapon states under the international framework for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation that came into effect in 1970 during the Cold War, and imposes obligations for nuclear disarmament.
This year, a five-year review meeting was scheduled to be held at the United Nations headquarters in New York to set the direction of global nuclear disarmament, but due to the worldwide spread of the new coronavirus, it will be held in January next year. It was postponed.
In addition, Argentina's Slavinen, who has been appointed as chairman of the conference, proposed to each country to postpone the conference again in light of the ongoing spread of the infection, and there was no opposition by the 28th of the deadline. , The meeting will be held from August 2nd to 27th next year.
Conflicts between nuclear-weapon states and non-nuclear-weapon states are deepening over nuclear disarmament, and there are movements among nuclear-weapon states that can be regarded as an arms race due to the miniaturization of nuclear weapons, so we will hold a review meeting next summer. The focus is on how much efforts the countries concerned can make to close the gap through dialogue.
UN Deputy Secretary-General "Atomic Bomb Day is within the session and I hope to motivate success"
UN Deputy Secretary-General Izumi Nakamitsu, who supports the progress of the NPT, said, "We would like to use the period up to that point for the success of the conference. Also, the day when the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki We hope that being within the session will provide further motivation for success. "