Kathmandu, Sept. 27:
Foreign Secretary Shankar Das Bairagi on Thursday
said that Nepal stood for time-bound, general and complete
disarmament, and unconditional elimination of all weapons of mass destruction,
including the nuclear weapons.
“The
catastrophic humanitarian and environmental consequences of the nuclear weapons
should not ever be allowed to occur,” he said while speaking at the High-Level Plenary Meeting to Commemorate and Promote
the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons in New York.
According to him, Nepal believes that total elimination of the
existing nuclear weapons and the assurance that they will never be produced again are the only absolute guarantee against
their catastrophic consequences.
“This can only ensure universal peace and
security,” he said.
Secretary Bairagi said that Nepal believed that
resources wasted for building and maintaining nuclear
arsenal should be diverted to
peace and development, and nuclear science and
technology should be used only for the peaceful purposes, such as for the advancement of
health services, clean water, agriculture, nutrition, food security, climate
action and access to energy for all.
Nepal is a state party to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and signatory
to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
Last year it supported the adoption of the Nuclear
Weapons Prohibition Treaty and later signed it.
“Nepal
does not believe that nuclear weapons are useful deterrents. Instead, they are a cause of security dilemma
and should not find any place in any national security doctrines,” he said.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 28 September 2018.
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