Geneva-Sana
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called on the countries of the world to strengthen efforts to make the world free of nuclear weapons, stressing that the only guarantee against the use of this type of weapon is to get rid of them completely.
And the United Nations News Center quoted Guterres as saying yesterday in a video message on the occasion of the anniversary of the United States dropping the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, “76 years ago, an atomic weapon caused unimaginable suffering to the residents of this city, as tens of thousands of residents were killed at the moment the bomb was dropped. Thousands in its wake and many more in subsequent years.”
On August 6, 1945, the administration of US President Harry Truman ordered the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, to be one of the most heinous and brutal crimes committed by the United States, which still bears witness to Washington's crimes and atrocities against peoples and humanity around the world.
Guterres stressed that the resilience of the survivors of the Hiroshima disaster is a living proof of the resilience of the human spirit and their dedication to share their experience with others to ensure that this bitter experience they suffered is not repeated, and we at the United Nations share their vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, which was the subject of the first resolution of its kind. The United Nations General Assembly was promulgated five months after this event, while the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force last January.
Guterres expressed concern about the lack of progress in achieving this goal and called on governments to strengthen efforts to achieve it, adding that the nuclear-weapon states had been modernizing their arsenals in recent years, which led to a new arms race, but the decision of the Russian Federation and the United States to extend the New START Treaty and participate In a dialogue about proliferation control are first steps toward reducing the risk of a nuclear catastrophe.
