Five security council countries undertake to prevent dissemination of nuclear weapon

The United States, China, Russia, the United Kingdom and France are the five legally recognized as “endowed with the nuclear weapon” by the treaty on non-proliferation.

Le Monde with AFP

The five member countries of the Security Council, the United States, China, Russia, the United Kingdom and France, committed, on Monday, January 3, to “prevent the continuation of the dissemination” of arms nuclear In a joint declaration before a treaty examination conference on the Treaty on the Non-proliferation (TNP).

The signatories are the five states legally recognized as “endowed with the nuclear weapon” by the TNP. Three other countries considered as holders of the atomic bomb – India, Pakistan and Israel – are not signatories from this treaty, while North Korea has denounced it.

“We affirm that a nuclear war can not be won and should never be conducted,” says the five signatory countries. “Given the large-scale consequences that would have the use of nuclear weapons, we also affirm that these, as long as they exist, must be used for defensive purposes, deterrence and prevention of war”, add -they. “Each of us intends to maintain and further strengthen its national measures to prevent unauthorized or unintentional use of nuclear weapons”, continues the text.

Negotiations with Iran

This declaration is published before the holding, which this year under the auspices of the United Nations, the TNP’s Tenth Review Conference, the International Treaty entered into force in 1970 in order to prevent the spread of the propagation of nuclear weapons. It has 191 States Parties.

In the process of negotiation with Iran, suspected of wanting to end up atomic bomb, these five nuclear powers emphasize their “willingness to work with all states to set up a security environment to make more progress In terms of disarmament, with the ultimate objective of a nuclear weapon-free world, “says the French Presidency, who has coordinated the work of these countries for two years.

Westerners suspect Iran to seek to develop, using the technology of its satellite launchers, long-range ballistic launchers capable of carrying conventional or nuclear charges. Negotiations resumed in December in December to revive the 2015 Agreement on its nuclear program, which became MORIBOND after the United States withdrawal in 2018.

/Media reports.