Bahreini: The World Badly Needs Commitment to Complete Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

Iran’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva Ali Bahreini stressed the need for a global commitment to the total elimination of nuclear weapons.

In a message he posted on his website under the title “World Day for the Prohibition of Nuclear Tests is an opportunity to recall the devastating consequences of these tests on human life,” Bahreini said: “today we badly need a global commitment to the complete elimination of nuclear weapons. Every nuclear explosion is a step backwards on the path to a world without nuclear weapons.”

The World Day Against Nuclear Tests was established at the 64th session of the UN General Assembly in December 2009 through resolution 64/35, which was unanimously approved.

The resolution calls for raising awareness about the effects of nuclear weapons test explosions or any other nuclear explosions and the need to stop them as one of the means to achieve the goal of a “nuclear-weapon-free world”.

Amal Farhat