UN Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed Moscow and Washington’s desire for an arms control dialogue
“I welcome the conviction of the United States and the Russian Federation that there can be no winners in a nuclear war and it cannot be allowed. I also welcome their commitment to arms control dialogue”, – the secretary-general said on the 76th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
He called on all parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (CTBT) to tighten norms on nuclear weapons. According to Guterres, since the Nagasaki bombing, the world has continued to “exist in the shadow of the nuclear mushroom”.
The CTBT was adopted following talks in July 2017 with the support of 122 UN member states, which did not include nuclear powers, including Russia, China, the US and the UK. Under the document, countries are prohibited from developing, testing, producing, using or threatening to use nuclear weapons.