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Pakistan calls for equal security for all in nuclear disarmament efforts
‘Major nuclear weapon states consistently oppose the start of any negotiations on the issue’
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GENEVA - Pakistan has stressed the need for upholding the principle of equal and undiminished security for all states in global nuclear disarmament efforts.
Pakistan’s permanent representative to the United Nations' European offices in Geneva, Zamir Akram, speaking in the General Assembly's First Committee that deals with disarmament and international security matters urged the major nuclear weapon states to progress towards achievement of the goal of global nuclear disarmament.
He said that there should be no discrimination, selectivity or exceptionalism in the context of arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament. In the context of the conference on disarmament, he said that major nuclear weapon states consistently oppose the start of any negotiations on the issue.
Pakistan’s representative also urged for a Fissile Material Treaty banning future production, demanding reduction and putting under international safeguards the existing stockpiles of fissile materials.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk