The primary mandate of the open-ended working group was to address concrete effective legal measures, legal provisions and norms that would need to be concluded to attain andmaintain a world without nuclear weapons.
Despite slow progress,civil society has continued to tirelessly advocate for a nuclear-free world and is in fact one step closer to its realization in principle.
NPDI Promoting a world without nuclear weapons is also the objective of the Hiroshima ministerial meeting, which is part of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative(NPDI), backed by a coalition of states with Japan and Australia taking the lead.
Abstention was also a surpriseconsidering President Barack Obama's call for a nuclear weapons-free world, in a historic speech he made in Prague in 2009.
First and foremost is intensive work with leaders of the countries inpossession of nuclear weapons to turn the goal of a world without nuclear weapons into a joint enterprise.
Advocates for a nuclear-free world argue that there are problems with all uranium exports, even if there are safeguards agreements in place with the countries receiving uranium, as there is always a risk that it will be used in weapons.
The symposium participants- including the Tokyo-based Soka Gakkai International(SGI) presided by Dr Ikeda-agreed that in pursuing the goal of a world without nuclear weapons, we must eliminate the threat nuclear weapons pose.
To focus so much attention on this lowprobability behaviour is a distraction from moving toward a nuclear-free world- with reduced reliance on both nuclear energy and nuclear weaponry.
It is imperative that all its Parties join efforts at the Review Conference to push forward the longstanding aspiration of the international community as a whole to realize the full potential of the NPT andpave the way to a world without nuclear weapons.
Recently, in the United States(which talked about a‘nuclear-free world' more loudly than others) remarks are openly made that the nuclear force of the United States‘lags behind' other countries, and nuclear force will be strengthened to keep it in military power.
Parliamentarians, mayors, and civil society groups working for a nuclear weapons-free world should also take advantage of this global platform, which surprisingly is the first time a General Assembly high-level meeting will be held on nuclear disarmament, Dr Burroughs said.
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