Belgium, a member of NATO-North Atlantic Treaty Organization, has announced that it will attend as an observer before the first Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will be held in Austria this week.
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which bans the development, possession and use of nuclear weapons, came into effect in January last year and has been ratified by more than 60 countries and regions. Will be opened at.
Belgium's Deputy Prime Minister Destel announced on Twitter that Belgium will be attending the meeting as an observer.
In Belgium, the declining coalition government parties have agreed to examine how the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons would lead to multilateral nuclear disarmament.
Belgium is a member of NATO and has its headquarters in Brussels, the capital.
Regarding nuclear weapons, NATO has stated that "the goal is a world without nuclear weapons, but as long as other countries own it, NATO will continue to have nuclear weapons." And Norway have also indicated their intention to attend as observers.
On the other hand, the Japanese government has announced that it will not attend observers.