Moscow, February 28.- The director of the Arms Control Department of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Sun Xiaobo, urged the international community to promote arms control and nuclear disarmament at a time when global strategic security faces new challenges and the countries with greater military power “have repeatedly broken treaties” in search of “their own absolute superiority.”
Speaking at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland, Sun insisted that nations with the largest nuclear arsenals continue to fulfill their "special and priority responsibilities" and commit to not being the first to use these types of weapons. .
“Nuclear weapon states should negotiate and conclude a no-first-use treaty with each other or make a political declaration in this regard,” defended the Chinese official, quoted by Xinhua.
Sun stressed that to achieve security for all, it is necessary to adhere to multilateralism to establish a universal and non-discriminatory order, recognizing that the demand of non-atomic weapons countries to eliminate this threat of mass destruction is legitimate, reasonable and within reach. of the international community, where there is already a broad consensus on the issue of nuclear security.
Other important steps, he noted, are promoting the implementation of treaties on biochemistry and responding to emerging scientific and technological challenges, such as artificial intelligence, outer space and cybernetics.
Currently, China and India are the only nuclear powers to formally adopt the no-first-use policy. Russia and the United States remain the nations with the largest nuclear arsenals in the world. (Text and photo: RT)
