Due to an increase in coronavirus instances caused by the highly transmissible omicron strain, a United Nations nuclear treaty conference has been postponed until August of next year, further delaying a meeting that has already been postponed for two years, The Hill reports.
Following two years of delays owing to the coronavirus epidemic, a meeting to revise the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was set to begin next Tuesday at the United Nations headquarters in New York. However, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) sent out an email on Thursday informing relevant parties that the meeting will now take place on August 1, 2022, according to the AP.
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Pact (NPT) is an international treaty aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. The NPT is the world’s most extensively approved nuclear armaments treaty, with 93 member nations. The pact states that nations who did not have nuclear weapons at the time of signing would not attempt to acquire them and that those that did have such weapons at the time of signing — the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, France, and China — would work to destroy them.
The NPT is reviewed every five years, according to the Associated Press, with the most recent nuclear treaty conference taking place in 2015. On Monday, the UNODA told conference leader Gustavo Zlauvinen that the meeting would not be able to go forward, recommending that it be held remotely or postponed further.
The NPT is reviewed every five years, according to the Associated Press, with the most recent nuclear treaty conference taking place in 2015. On Monday, the UNODA told conference leader Gustavo Zlauvinen that the meeting would not be able to go forward, recommending that it be held remotely or postponed further.
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