UNITED NATIONS (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 22nd January, 2020) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called on all state-parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) to guarantee at the Review Conference this year that the accord is able to prevent nuclear war and facilitate global disarmament.
"I call on all state parties to work together at the 2020 Review of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons to ensure the NPT remains able to fulfill its fundamental goals - preventing nuclear war and facilitating the elimination of nuclear weapons," Guterres said.
Guterres, reporting to the UN General Assembly on his priorities for this year, said that the international community is challenged this year - growing political tensions, existential climate crisis, deep global mistrust and the dark side of technological advances.
To address the four threats, Guterres suggested focusing on prevention, mediation and peacekeeping capacities as well as building fair globalization, reducing gas emissions by 45 percent by 2030 and promoting global digital cooperation to formulate new technological norms.
The 2020 NPT Review Conference will kick off at the United Nations headquarters in New York on April 27.
