10:37 am: Austria denounces the failure of the text on nuclear disarmament
Austria, a neutral and non-nuclear country, denounced the attitude of the major powers following the failure to adopt a text on nuclear disarmament at the UN. “While more than three-quarters of the 191 signatory states advocated credible progress in nuclear disarmament, it was mainly the nuclear-weapon states, and above all Russia, that resisted,” the government wrote in a statement. .
“Contrary to the disarmament commitments enshrined in the NPT, the five nuclear-armed states (United States, France, China, United Kingdom and Russia) are increasing or perfecting their arsenals,” he added. “During the negotiations in New York, there was no discernible will to implement previously unfulfilled contractual obligations,” he said.
