On September 26th local time, United Nations General Assembly held a high-level meeting to commemorate the "International Day for Complete Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ".
UN Secretary-General Guterres In his speech, he urged the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons to reach a consensus on substantive results as soon as possible and take all measures to eliminate the nuclear threat of . He stressed that elimination of nuclear weapons would be the best gift that can be given to future generations. Without eliminating nuclear weapons, there is no peace, trust, and a sustainable future.
On September 26, UN Secretary-General Guterres spoke at the meeting.
China's permanent representative to United Nations Geng Shuang pointed out in his speech at the meeting that countries with the largest nuclear arsenal should earnestly fulfill their special and priority responsibilities, further significantly and substantially reduce their respective nuclear arsenals, and create conditions for ultimately achieving comprehensive and thorough nuclear disarmament.
Geng Shuang said at the meeting that the complete ban and complete destruction of nuclear weapons and the ultimate establishment of a world without nuclear weapons is in line with the common interests of all mankind and the common wish of all countries in the world.
Geng Shuang: "For some time, some countries have been obsessed with the 'strategic competition of great powers', constantly strengthening military alliances, provoking camp confrontation, promoting the frontier deployment of strategic forces, and insisting on carrying out nuclear submarine cooperation. These actions have aggravated the risk of nuclear arms race and nuclear proliferation, hindered international nuclear disarmament efforts, and went against the goal of completely eliminating nuclear weapons and establishing a world without nuclear weapons. They should be terminated immediately."
On September 26, Geng Shuang spoke at the meeting.
Geng Shuang said that mankind is an inseparable security community, and a country must not seek its own security at the expense of other countries. China calls on the international community to actively respond to the global security initiative and jointly maintain world peace and tranquility, and calls on all nuclear-weapon countries to actively respond to China's long-term proposals and adopt a policy of not using nuclear weapons first.
Geng Shuang said that China firmly follows the path of peaceful development, always adheres to the nuclear strategy of self-defense and defense, and does not use nuclear weapons first at any time and under any circumstances. China insists on maintaining its nuclear power at the lowest level needed by national security, and does not compare investment, quantity and scale with other countries, and does not engage in a nuclear arms race with any country. China will continue to actively practice the true multilateralism of , work together with the international community to advance the nuclear disarmament process, and make unremitting efforts to establish a nuclear-weapon-free world and achieve common security for all mankind.
In December 2013, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution, declaring that September 26 of each year is the "International Day for the Complete Elimination of Nuclear Weapons", aiming to remind the threat of nuclear weapons to mankind and the need for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.
Source: Global Information +
