‘Nuclear weapons have no place in our world,’ UN chief tells mayors in Nagasaki | UN News
80 years after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the “only guarantee” against the use of nuclear weapons today is their “total elimination”, the UN Secretary-General said on Friday.
"They have returned to the centre of national security strategies and are being brandished as tools of coercion. Meanwhile, military spending has reached record highs — while investments in peace and sustainable development falter,", she added.
"Peace and security cannot be achieved through an arms race," she said, calling on countries to re-commit to the proven tools of disarmament; "dialogue, diplomacy, confidence building, transparency, and arms control and reduction."
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