Nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament is essential to the world’s peace and security, and the total elimination of nuclear weapons is the only guarantee for countries not to be threatened with or attacked by nuclear weapons.
Ambassador Duong Chi Dung, head of the Vietnamese mission in Geneva (Photo: VNA)
Geneva (VNA) – Nuclearnon-proliferation and disarmament is essential to the world’s peace andsecurity, and the total elimination of nuclear weapons is the only guaranteefor countries not to be threatened with or attacked by nuclear weapons.
Ambassador Duong Chi Dung, head of theVietnamese mission in Geneva, on behalf of G21 nations, made the statement at aplenary meeting of the Conference on Disarmament in Switzerland on June 26.
In his speech, Dung said the G21 raised concernabout the dangers posed by nuclear weapons to human survival and underlined theresponsibility of nuclear states to dismantle the weapons.
The group recognised and welcomed recentpositive developments in the efforts of the international community to build anuclear-free world, including the establishment of nuclear-free zones andnegotiations for the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty 2017.
However, the G21 expressed concern over the factthat many countries still give prominence to nuclear weapons in securitytheories while some break the consensus of establishing the Middle East regionwithout nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. The eliminationof nuclear weapons remains a slow process.
The group proposed nuclear states reaffirm theirclear commitment to the total elimination of nuclear weapons, remove the roleof nuclear weapons in security theories and enact measures to mitigate nuclearrisks.
It called for negotiations on a general, unconditionaland legally binding instrument to ensure that nuclear-free countries are notthreatened or attacked by nuclear weapons, and on a treaty on the prohibitionof development, production, stockpiling, use or threat to use nuclear weapons.
Vietnam is playing the role of G21 coordinatorat the Conference on Disarmament (CD) from June 25 to August 19, 2018.
The G21 is one of the four regional groups ofthe CD with 33 member countries from the Non-Aligned Movement. The other threegroups include Eastern Europe (six members), the western group (25 members) andthe Group of One (China).
The coordinator of the G21 group rotatesfollowing the alphabetical membership list.
Vietnam will chair the conference from late June2019 to mid-August 2019. The country played this role from January to February2009.-VNA
Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN delivered a speech at the General Debate of the First Committee of the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on October 13, stressing Vietnam’s support for a nuclear weapon-free world.
Vietnam’s Permanent Representative to the UN has asserted the country’s willingness to work closely with other states parties and signatories to strengthen nuclear weapons free zones as well as to foster cooperation among such regions, in joint efforts for the ultimate objective of a world free of nuclear weapons.
Vietnam will continue to support efforts toward comprehensive disarmament and non-proliferation, with the highest priority given to the general and complete elimination of nuclear weapons.
Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga, head of the Vietnam Permanent Mission to the United Nations, deposited with the UN Secretary General Vietnam’s instrument of ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on May 17, becoming the 10th country ratifying the document.
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Ambassador Duong Chi Dung, head of the Vietnamese mission in Geneva (Photo: VNA) 
