China News Agency, United Nations, October 18th. China's disarmament ambassador Li Song delivered a speech on the 17th session of the 77th UN General Assembly Disarmament and International Security Committee (UNGA First Committee), and put forward China's seven-point proposal on nuclear disarmament.
Li Song said that China has always advocated the complete prohibition and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons and ultimately achieve the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons.
The indefinite extension of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) does not mean that nuclear-weapon states can have nuclear weapons forever.
Li Song said that at present, the global strategic security environment continues to deteriorate. Concepts and policies such as hegemonism, power politics, Cold War mentality, ideological demarcation, major power competition, and camp confrontation are serious threats to international peace and security.
Issues such as the role of nuclear weapons and the risk of nuclear war have once again attracted the attention of the international community.
Where does nuclear disarmament go, the United Nations needs answers.
China claims:
1. The international community should practice genuine multilateralism and uphold the concept of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security.
Major powers, especially the nuclear-weapon states, must abandon the concept of strategic competition, ideological demarcation, and camp confrontation, let go of the obsession with exclusive security and absolute security, and do not put their own security above the security of other countries, and do not use nuclear weapons to become kings. Hegemony, bullying and coercion of non-nuclear-weapon states.
2. The United States and Russia, as the nuclear superpowers that still possess the largest nuclear arsenals, should continue to fulfill their special and priority historical responsibilities for nuclear disarmament, and further substantially and substantially reduce their respective nuclear arsenals in a verifiable, irreversible, and legally binding manner , to create conditions for the final realization of comprehensive and complete nuclear disarmament.
In view of the huge differences in nuclear policies, nuclear forces, and security environments among nuclear-weapon states, and there is no unified template for nuclear arms control, nuclear reduction, and nuclear transparency, the principles of "maintaining global strategic stability" and "non-compromising the security of all countries" must be followed, The nuclear disarmament process should be advanced step by step in a fair and reasonable manner, with gradual reduction and downward balance.
3. Nuclear-weapon states should make practical adjustments to relevant nuclear strategies and policies, reduce the role of nuclear weapons in national security policies, and promise not to be the first to use nuclear weapons, not to target any country for nuclear strikes, and not to target nuclear weapons at any country, unconditionally Use or threat of use of nuclear weapons by non-nuclear-weapon States and nuclear-weapon-free zones.
China calls on the five nuclear-weapon states to conclude a "mutual no-first-use treaty" and actively promotes the negotiation of the Geneva Conference on Disarmament to conclude an international legal instrument providing "negative security assurances" to non-nuclear-weapon states.
Fourth, "nuclear sharing" runs counter to the purpose and principles of the NPT, and should not be encouraged or proliferated.
Non-nuclear-weapon states that are allied with nuclear-weapon states have important differences from other non-nuclear-weapon states, and their security demands are not completely consistent.
It is also necessary for these countries to take responsibility and make efforts to effectively reduce the role of nuclear weapons in their national and collective security strategies.
5. In January this year, the leaders of the five nuclear-weapon states issued the "Joint Statement on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding an Arms Race", stating that "a nuclear war cannot be won and cannot be fought".
The timely release of this historic statement is of great and far-reaching significance for preventing nuclear war and maintaining global strategic stability, and must be strictly abided by.
The five nuclear-weapon states should further strengthen communication on issues such as strategic stability and nuclear risk reduction, and can initiate in-depth dialogues on broader issues such as missile defense, outer space, cyber, and artificial intelligence to rebuild mutual trust and strengthen cooperation.
Sixth, wrong practices that undermine the international nuclear non-proliferation regime must be resolutely resisted.
Some nuclear-weapon states put their geopolitical interests above the goal of nuclear non-proliferation, pursue double standards and pragmatism, cooperate with non-nuclear-weapon states on nuclear submarines that go against the purpose and purpose of the NPT, and attempt to replicate "nuclear sharing" in the Asia-Pacific region.
The international community should take a clear-cut stand against the above-mentioned acts of nuclear proliferation and jointly create an international and regional security environment conducive to progress in nuclear disarmament.
7. States parties to the NPT should take the opportunity of the new review cycle to firmly safeguard the authority and effectiveness of the treaty, further strengthen the international nuclear non-proliferation regime, and promote the NPT to serve peace and development.
Efforts should be made to promote the early entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, strengthen preparations for its implementation, and abide by the "test moratorium" commitment.
Support the Geneva Conference on Disarmament to launch negotiations on a Treaty to Ban the Production of Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons on the basis of a comprehensive and balanced work plan and in accordance with the mandate contained in the Shannon Report, so as to achieve the production cut-off goal in a legally binding manner.
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