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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> WUNRN_LISTSERVE-owner@lists.wunrn.com [mailto:WUNRN_LISTSERVE-owner@lists.wunrn.com]
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<b>Subject:</b> [WUNRN] UN Conference Adopts Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons - Some Countries Non-Participants - Women Want Peace!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">UN Conference Adopts Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://static.un.org/News/dh/photos/large/2012/August/84769-hiroshima.jpg" title=""The remains of the Prefectural Industry Promotion Building, later preserved as a monument - known as the Genbaku Dome - at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. UN Photo" "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#005689;border:solid #DDDDDD 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="719" height="524" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D2F7D4.A28D6AB0" alt="http://static.un.org/News/dh/photos/large/2012/August/84769-hiroshima.jpg"></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#555555">The remains of the Prefectural Industry Promotion Building, later preserved as a monument - known as
the Genbaku Dome - at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. UN Photo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">7 July 2017 – Countries meeting at a United Nations conference in New York today adopted the Treaty
on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the first multilateral legally-binding instrument for nuclear disarmament to have been negotiated in 20 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">“The treaty represents an important step and contribution towards the common aspirations of a world
without nuclear weapons,” the spokesperson for <a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en"><span style="color:#0088CC">Secretary-General</span></a> António Guterres <a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2017-07-07/statement-attributable-spokesman-secretary-general-adoption-treaty"><span style="color:#0088CC">said</span></a> following
its adoption.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">“The Secretary-General hopes that this new treaty will promote inclusive dialogue and renewed international
cooperation aimed at achieving the long overdue objective of nuclear disarmament,” Stéphane Dujarric added.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The treaty – adopted by a vote of 122 in favour to one against (Netherlands), with one abstention
(Singapore) – prohibits a full range of nuclear-weapon-related activities, such as undertaking to develop, test, produce, manufacture, acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, as well as the use or threat of use of
these weapons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">“We feel emotional because we are responding to the hopes and dreams of the present and future generations,”
said Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gómez of Costa Rica, who serves as the President of the conference that negotiated the treaty in response to a mandate given by the UN General Assembly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">She told a news conference at UN Headquarters that with the treaty the world is “one step closer”
to a total elimination of nuclear weapons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The treaty will be open for signature to all States at UN Headquarters in New York on 20 September
2017, and enter into force 90 days after it has been ratified by at least 50 countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">However, a number of countries stayed out of the negotiations, including the United States, Russia
and other nuclear-weapon States, as well as many of their allies. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) did not join the talks either.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">In a joint press statement issued today, the delegations of the United States, United Kingdom and
France said they “have not taken part in the negotiation of the treaty… and do not intend to sign, ratify or ever become party to it.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">“This initiative clearly disregards the realities of the international security environment,” they
said. “Accession to the ban treaty is incompatible with the policy of nuclear deterrence, which has been essential to keeping the peace in Europe and North Asia for over 70 years.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">In response to questions on the joint statement, Ms. Whyte Gómez recalled that when the Treaty on
the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was adopted decades ago, it did not enjoy a large number of accessions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Opened for signature in 1968, the Treaty entered into force in 1970. Then in 1995, the Treaty was
extended indefinitely. A total of 191 States have joined the Treaty, including the five nuclear-weapon States that are the permanent members of the UN Security Council – China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">In the beginning, it was unimaginable that those States would be parties to the NPT, she noted. “But
the world changes and the circumstances change.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">She added that the <i>hibakusha</i>, survivors of nuclear bombs, have been the driving force in the
creation of the nuclear weapons prohibition treaty. The experiences they have been sharing “touch the human soul,” she said, adding that the negotiations were a “combination of reason and heart.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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