China News Agency, United Nations, October 5th. The 76th UN General Assembly Disarmament and International Security Committee held a general debate on the 5th.
Ambassador Geng Shuang, head of the Chinese delegation, pointed out at the meeting that the multilateral arms control and disarmament system is at a crossroads, and the international community is faced with an important decision on where to go.
The international community should proceed from the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind and make wise choices in a responsible manner.
Geng Shuang said that international arms control and disarmament are related to world peace and stability.
The painful experience of World War II gave birth to a multilateral arms control and disarmament system with the United Nations at its core.
For more than 70 years, this system has made positive contributions to eliminating the threat of strategic weapons, promoting global strategic stability, and maintaining international peace and security.
Currently, the international community faces four major choices around this system: First, is it to regain the Cold War mentality and create split and confrontation; or to promote multilateralism and maintain strategic stability?
Second, is it to pursue pragmatism and undermine multilateral rules; or to fulfill responsibilities and obligations and advance the disarmament agenda?
Third, is it to implement a geostrategy to suppress dissident countries; or to insist on objective and fairness and seek a political solution?
Fourth, is it to abuse its own advantages to seek technology monopoly; or to encourage openness and tolerance, and jointly formulate rules?
Geng Shuang emphasized that how the international community examines the above four major issues and what choices it makes are related to the future of the multilateral arms control and disarmament system, the trend of the international strategic security pattern, and the prospect of global strategic stability.
The international community should proceed from the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind and make wise choices in a responsible manner.
Geng Shuang pointed out that the United States has upgraded its nuclear arsenal, promoted the construction of global anti-missile systems, deployed land-based medium-range missiles in Asia-Pacific and Europe, developed nuclear submarine cooperation with the United Kingdom and Australia, delayed chemical weapons destruction, exclusively opposed biological weapons verification protocol negotiations, and long-term resistance to control by outer air forces. In the process, seek military advantage through the development of emerging technologies, and use the Iranian nuclear, North Korean nuclear, Syrian chemical weapons and other regional non-proliferation hotspot issues to implement geo-strategies.
He criticized these actions.
Geng Shuang also urged Japan to revoke its erroneous decision to discharge nuclear-contaminated water into the sea and properly address the concerns of the international community in an open, transparent and responsible manner.
Geng Shuang said that in the 50 years since the People’s Republic of China restored its legal seat in the United Nations, it has adhered to a common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable global security concept, and has always been committed to maintaining and developing the international arms control and disarmament system. So far, it has joined more than 20 international arms control systems. Treaties and mechanisms, and fully implement treaty obligations.
China firmly pursues a self-defense nuclear strategy and always maintains its nuclear power at the lowest level required for national security.
China never compares scale or quantity with any country, nor does it engage in a nuclear arms race with any country.
China is willing to strengthen dialogue and cooperation with all parties on maintaining global strategic stability under multilateral mechanisms and bilateral frameworks such as the Five Nuclear Powers.
The UN General Assembly Disarmament and International Security Committee (referred to as the "UN General Assembly First Committee") is responsible for handling international security affairs such as arms control, disarmament, and non-proliferation. During the meeting, countries hold general debates and discuss nuclear, biological, chemical, and conventional weapons. , Internet, outer space and other topics.
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