NetworkNewsToday: BARACK OBAMA: NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION: UNITED NATIONS

NetworkNewsToday: 24 September 2009 - UNTV: The Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution calling on all States that are not parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to accede to it as non-nuclear-weapon States so as to achieve its universality at the earliest. This was the first UN Security Council meeting at a heads of state level on the issue including the CTBT, since 1992.

The Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution today calling on all States that are not parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to accede to it as non-nuclear-weapon States so as to achieve its universality at the earliest. This was the first UN Security Council meeting at a heads of state level on the issue including the CTBT, since 1992.

The meeting, presided over by United States President Barack Obama, was also the first time a Security Council Summit had been chaired by a U.S. President.

The text also called on all States to refrain from conducting a nuclear test explosion and to sign and ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), thereby bringing it into force as soon as possible.

President Obama recalled that the United Nations was founded at the dawn of the atomic age, in part because of mans capacity to kill had to be contained and noted that the world now faces proliferation of a scope and complexity that demands new strategies and new approaches."

The US President said that the resolution makes it clear that the Security Council had both the authority and responsibility to determine and respond as necessary when violations of this treaty threaten international peace and security, including non compliance with Security Council resolutions on Iran and North Korea.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the Security Council to make the most of its historic meeting on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament and find ways to build on growing international momentum towards the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons.

Stressing that, nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world, Ban said that nothing would work better in eliminating the risk of use than eliminating the weapons themselves and praised the examples of Russia and the United States, which earlier this year committed themselves to cutting their arsenals of strategic warheads.

Last year Ban unveiled a five-point nuclear disarmament plan that included a stronger role for the Security Council in non-proliferation matters.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, in his address to the Council said that while the old traditional threats persist and new ones are emerging and highlighted the danger of nuclear components falling in the hands of terrorists .

The new measure, UNSC Resolution 1887, expresses the Councils grave concern about the threat of nuclear proliferation and the need for international action to prevent it. It reaffirms that the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery are threats to international peace and security and shows agreement on a broad range of actions to address nuclear proliferation and disarmament and the threat of nuclear terrorism.


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