Next year, the negotiation of a legally binding treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons will start, following the adoption of a resolution at the United Nations General Assembly," the statement added.
People are disappointed that the international community still hasn't resolved to prohibit these weapons against humanity and they are very supportive of Australian Red Cross speaking out.".
Natsuo Yamaguchi, President of the New Komei Party, a coalition partner of LDP, said:"The fact that a norm of banning nuclear weapons was established internationally has a ground-breaking significance.
The Humanitarian Pledge, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly over five months ago, calls on nations to join negotiations for finalizing a treaty to prohibit the nuclear weapons.
All of this is happening at the same time as the United Nations commences an historically unprecedented attempt to create a‘legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination'.
ICAN- the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons- was launched by IPPNW in 2007 and now comprises more than 300 partner organizations in 80 countries campaigning for a treaty to ban nuclear weapons and to mandate their elimination.
Even a year ago, the idea of a treaty banning nuclear weapons supported by a majority of countries in the world, negotiated in a record time of only four weeks, would have seemed like a dream-- laughable to many.
The outcome from the 2015 NPT Review Conference is the Humanitarian Pledge, she added. The states endorsing the Pledge now and after this Conference must use it as the basis for a new process to develop a legally-binding instrument prohibiting nuclear weapons.
Now the hard work of encouraging nuclear-armed states and nuclear-umbrella states to also sign must not only proceed, but ramp up, utilising the powerful added tool of a treaty banning nuclear weapons.
RCW, headed by Ray Acheson, is of the view that these states- and those that endorse the pledge after this Conference- must now use the pledge as the basis for a new process to develop a legally binding instrument prohibiting nuclear weapons.
In the 2013 Peace Proposal Ikeda urged non-governmental organisations(NGOs) and forward-looking governments to establish an action group to draft a Nuclear Weapons Convention(NWC) outlawing nuclear weapons- which apart from being inhumane swallow some 105 billion dollars a year at current spending.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons(ICAN) released a study on January 16, which says that every country in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa is in favour of a treaty banning nuclear weapons, as are most nations in Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East.
In addition, there is the Treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons in the atmosphere and outer space, and the 1971 Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Seabed and the Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil Thereof see CR 95/22, p.
But for the Geneva-based International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons(ICAN),“it is now clear beyond doubt that an overwhelming majority of the world's nations are ready to start negotiations on a treaty banning nuclear weapons”.
In Hiroshima Obama was accompanied by Japanese Prime Minister Abe, who is also facing harsh criticism at home for his"hypocritical stance" on nuclear weapons, calling for nuclear disarmament while continuing to rely on U.S. nuclear weapons and opposing progress on a new treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons.
Third, the government nevertheless has responded that"if we reach the stage at which nuclear weapons are abolished, we will naturally have also reached the stage at which we will create a convention that bans nuclear weapons.".
The Treaty of Tlatelolco, which established a nuclear weapons free zone across the region, was the first multilateral treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in a region- now Latin American and Caribbean states intend to work to promote a similar process that bans nuclear weapons internationally.
As Dr Rebecca Johnson, co-chair of ICAN points out, the significance of this announcement should not be underestimated."In 1967, at the height of the Cold War, Mexico was the driving force behind the Treaty of Tlatelolco, which prohibited nuclear weapons across the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Their contribution in raising awareness about the need to prohibit nuclear weapons was recognized when the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons(ICAN), the civil society coalition that has continued to strive for a Treaty-based prohibition of nuclear weapons.
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