The United Nations chief warned the world Monday that 'humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation.'
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres makes remarks before the 2022 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference in the United Nations General Assembly, Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. The United Nations chief warned the world Monday that "humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation."
The conference is "an opportunity to hammer out the measures that will help avoid certain disaster, and to put humanity on a new path towards a world free of nuclear weapons," the secretary-general said. Guterres called on conference participants to take several actions: urgently reinforce and reaffirm "the 77-year-old norm against the use of nuclear weapons," work relentlessly toward the elimination of nuclear weapons with new commitments to reduce arsenals, address "the simmering tensions in the Middle Est and Asia" and promote the peaceful use of nuclear technology.
Under its provisions, the five original nuclear powers -- the United States, China, Russia , Britain and France -- agreed to negotiate toward eliminating their arsenals someday and nations without nuclear weapons promised not to acquire them in exchange for a guarantee to be able to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
Still, Swiss President Ignazio Cassis, prime ministers Fumio Kishida of Japan and Frank Bainimarama of Fiji, and more than a dozen nations' foreign ministers are among attendees expected from at least 116 countries, according to a UN official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly before the conference.
It is taking place at a time of heightened fears of a nuclear confrontation, spurred by Russia's comments following its Feb. 24 invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
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