UN: permanent members of the Council commit to nuclear dissemination
The director of the IAEA Rafael Mariano Grossi, alongside the head of American diplomacy Antony Blinken, last October in Washington, under the portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
AP - Mandel Ngan
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In a joint declaration, the permanent member countries of the United Nations Security Council (United States, China, Russia, United Kingdom and France) pledged on Monday January 3 to "
prevent the continued dissemination
" of nuclear weapons , shortly before a review conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the NPT.
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Against the backdrop of negotiations with Iran, all the nuclear powers of the UN Security Council underline their "
willingness to work with all States to establish a security environment allowing further progress in the area of disarmament." , with the ultimate objective of a world free of nuclear weapons
”, specifies the French presidency, which has been coordinating the work of these countries for two years.
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