China Reveals Its Position On Nuclear Disarmament

Li Song, China's Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) responsible for disarmament affairs, explained China's position on nuclear disarmament at the first committee session of the 77th General Assembly yesterday. Noting that the global security environment is constantly deteriorating at the moment, Li Song noted that issues such as the role of nuclear weapons and the risk of nuclear war have once again attracted the attention of the international community.

Li Song reported that China has put forward 6 proposals on nuclear disarmament;

First, the international community must implement a common, comprehensive, collaborative and sustainable idea of ​​security by fulfilling genuine multilateralism. Great powers, especially nuclear-armed countries, should abandon strategic competition, ideological lines and clash of blocs, abandon the obsession with private security and absolute security, not put their own security above the security of other countries, and not bully states that do not have nuclear weapons.

Second, the United States and Russia, with the largest nuclear arsenals, must effectively fulfill their specific and historical responsibilities for nuclear disarmament and significantly and sustainably reduce their nuclear arsenals in a demonstrable, irrevocable and legally binding manner, ultimately creating the conditions for achieving total and complete nuclear disarmament. they should create.

Third, nuclear-armed countries should make practical arrangements to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in their national security policies, abandon nuclear deterrence strategies focused on preemptive strike, and not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear or non-nuclear weapons areas.

Fourth, sharing nuclear weapons is against the purposes and principles of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; should not be promoted or disseminated.

Fifth, in January, 5 nuclear states including China, Russia, USA, UK and France published the Joint Statement of 5 Nuclear State Leaders to Prevent Nuclear Weapons and Avoid the Arms Race, confirming the idea that “nuclear war cannot and should never be won”. This historic joint statement must be seriously applied.

Finally, the international community must resolutely oppose any wrongdoing that undermines the nuclear nonproliferation system.