“About 14 thousand nuclear weapons are stored around the world.
Humanity is still unacceptably close to nuclear annihilation, ”he wrote on his Twitter account.
Guterres called for the elimination of nuclear weapons in the world and a new era of trust and peace.
“The time has come to dissipate the cloud of nuclear conflict,” the UN Secretary General says.
Earlier, he said that the decision of the United States and Russia to extend the Treaty on Measures to Further Reduce and Limit Strategic Offensive Arms was a step towards reducing the risk of nuclear catastrophe.