Great Powers Ignore Differences and Commit Against Nuclear Proliferation

Paris. The five permanent members of the UN Security Council pledged, in a context of tensions, to “prevent the proliferation” of nuclear weapons, stating that any war that involves them can never be won.

Prior to the 10th Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference, scheduled for January but postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the five powers (the United States, China, Russia, the United Kingdom, and France ) tried to reassure world public opinion about the risks of a cataclysmic confrontation.

In full negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, the five countries underscored their “willingness to work with all states to establish a security environment that allows further progress in disarmament, with the ultimate goal of a world without nuclear weapons.” explained the French presidency, which coordinated the work of these States for two years.

“Each of us will maintain and further strengthen our national measures to prevent the unauthorized or unintended use of nuclear weapons,” added the text, published a week before negotiations between Russia and the United States are held in Geneva on the nuclear weapons. treaties on nuclear arms control and on the situation on the border between Russia and Ukraine

“We affirm that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.” They stressed that “as long as they exist [las armas nucleares], should be used for defensive, deterrent and war prevention purposes.

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) prevented the atomic weapon from spreading throughout the world, but its success is threatened by the desire of the great powers to preserve it and by the United States’ exit in 2015 from the nuclear agreement with Iran.