The use of Nuclear weapons should be prohibited

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is the first globally applicable multilateral agreement to comprehensively prohibit any nuclear weapon activities. These include undertakings not to develop, test, produce, acquire, possess, stockpile, use or threaten to use nuclear weapons.

Today is the final day of the 21-23 June 2022 treaty signatories meeting in Vienna, Austria. The meeting gathers state parties to the treaty, so they can perform an action to meet obligations under the treaty.

The Treaty was adopted on 7 July 2017 by the United Nations conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons. The Treaty entered into force on 22 January 2021.

There are currently 86 signatories and 65 state parties. Unfortunately, the ban is largely symbolic. The world’s strongest nuclear powers have not signed the treaty.

The NPT is the most widely accepted arms control agreement. Only Israel, India, and Pakistan have never been signatories of the Treaty, and North Korea regime withdrew from the Treaty in 2003.

It is our firm belief that nuclear weapons, large or small, must be banned because they have unacceptable humanitarian consequences and pose an existential threat to humanity and all other species and ecosystems.

We believe in peaceful uses of nuclear energy and promote a further goal of achieving nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and general and complete disarmament.

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