Guterres warning; The world is facing the danger of nuclear war.
The Secretary General of the United Nations said in a speech at the meeting of the members of the Treaty on the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in New York, a miscalculation will lead to the destruction of the world.
The Secretary General of the United Nations, in a speech on the occasion of the beginning of the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) meeting in New York, warned against the occurrence of a nuclear war in the world.
According to the website of France-24 news channel, “Antonio Guterres”, the Secretary General of the United Nations, warned at the beginning of the meeting of the NPT member states that the world is facing the danger of a nuclear war that has not been seen since the height of the Cold War, and that only one miscalculation will happen. Nuclear annihilation is far away.
“We’ve been incredibly lucky so far,” Guterres said. But luck is not a strategy. “This is not a shield to deal with geopolitical tensions that turn into nuclear conflict.”
“Today, humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation,” Guterres said.
The meeting, which was held at the UN headquarters in New York, has been postponed several times since 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Referring to Russia’s war in Ukraine and tensions on the Korean Peninsula and the Middle East, Guterres said: “This meeting is an opportunity to strengthen the treaty and make it fit for the worrying world around us.”
The Secretary General of the United Nations said: “The elimination of nuclear weapons will be the only guarantee for the non-use of these weapons.”
He added that he will visit Hiroshima for the anniversary of the atomic bombing of this Japanese city on August 6, 1945 by the United States.
“About 13,000 nuclear weapons are now kept in arsenals around the world,” Guterres said. “All this comes at a time when the risks of nuclear proliferation are increasing and the safeguards to prevent escalation are weakening.”
The NPT Treaty (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty), which has been in effect since 1970, has the largest number of signatories among the existing arms control agreements in the world, and more than 191 countries have joined it.
