(Source: United Nations General Assembly) Acknowledging the ethical imperatives for a nuclear-weapon-free world, which was a 'global public good of the highest order', a new draft resolution in the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) approved today asks the General Assembly to declare that those weapons were 'inherently immoral' and that all States shared an ethical responsibility to eliminate and prohibit them. That text, 'L.40', was among 16 approved by the Committee in its nuclear weapons cluster, many of which required recorded votes on internal provisions. Further to its terms, the Assembly would declare that the global threat posed by nuclear weapons must urgently...
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First Committee Sends 16 Drafts on Nuclear Disarmament to General Assembly, Including New One on ...
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