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U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks while French Deputy Ambassador to the U.N. Alexis Lamek and British Ambassador to the United Nations Matthew Rycroft listen outside the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton Reuters


UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States, Britain and France are among almost 40 countries that will not join talks on a nuclear weapons ban treaty starting at the United Nations on Monday, said U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley.

Haley told reporters the countries skipping the negotiations are instead committed to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which entered into force in 1970 and is aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology.

"There is nothing I want more for my family than a world with no nuclear weapons. But we have to be realistic. Is there anyone that believes that North Korea would agree to a ban on nuclear weapons?" Haley told reporters.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution in December - 113 in favor to 35 against, with 13 abstentions - that decided to "negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination" and encouraged all member states to participate.

"You are going to see almost 40 countries that are not in the General Assembly today," Haley said. "In this day and time we can't honestly that say we can protect our people by allowing the bad actors to have them and those of us that are good, trying to keep peace and safety, not to have them."

The Trump administration is reviewing whether it will reaffirm the goal of a world without nuclear weapons, a White House aide said last week, referring to an aim embraced by previous Republican and Democratic presidents and required by a key arms control treaty.

Britain's U.N. Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said: "The UK is not attending the negotiations on a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons because we do not believe that those negotiations will lead to effective progress on global nuclear disarmament."


Deputy French U.N, Ambassador Alexis Lamek said the security conditions were not right for a nuclear weapons ban treaty.

"In the current perilous context, considering in particular the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery, our countries continue to rely on nuclear deterrence for security and stability," Lamek said.

Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, said in a statement: "It is disappointing to see some countries with strong humanitarian records standing with a government which threatens a new arms race."

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/a...-others-skip-nuclear-weapons-ban-treaty-talks
 
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U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks while French Deputy Ambassador to the U.N. Alexis Lamek and British Ambassador to the United Nations Matthew Rycroft listen outside the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton Reuters


UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States, Britain and France are among almost 40 countries that will not join talks on a nuclear weapons ban treaty starting at the United Nations on Monday, said U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley.

Haley told reporters the countries skipping the negotiations are instead committed to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which entered into force in 1970 and is aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology.

"There is nothing I want more for my family than a world with no nuclear weapons. But we have to be realistic. Is there anyone that believes that North Korea would agree to a ban on nuclear weapons?" Haley told reporters.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution in December - 113 in favor to 35 against, with 13 abstentions - that decided to "negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination" and encouraged all member states to participate.

"You are going to see almost 40 countries that are not in the General Assembly today," Haley said. "In this day and time we can't honestly that say we can protect our people by allowing the bad actors to have them and those of us that are good, trying to keep peace and safety, not to have them."

The Trump administration is reviewing whether it will reaffirm the goal of a world without nuclear weapons, a White House aide said last week, referring to an aim embraced by previous Republican and Democratic presidents and required by a key arms control treaty.

Britain's U.N. Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said: "The UK is not attending the negotiations on a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons because we do not believe that those negotiations will lead to effective progress on global nuclear disarmament."


Deputy French U.N, Ambassador Alexis Lamek said the security conditions were not right for a nuclear weapons ban treaty.

"In the current perilous context, considering in particular the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery, our countries continue to rely on nuclear deterrence for security and stability," Lamek said.

Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, said in a statement: "It is disappointing to see some countries with strong humanitarian records standing with a government which threatens a new arms race."

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/a...-others-skip-nuclear-weapons-ban-treaty-talks
You forgot the elephant - Russia also skipped the talks.
 
"You are going to see almost 40 countries that are not in the General Assembly today," Haley said. "In this day and time we can't honestly that say we can protect our people by allowing the bad actors to have them and those of us that are good, trying to keep peace and safety, not to have them."

Maybe I am reading too much into this statement but could what she said hint ever so slightly that the US will be more open about which countries (excluding North Korea) it is uncomfortable with possessing nuclear weapons?

"In the current perilous context, considering in particular the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery, our countries continue to rely on nuclear deterrence for security and stability," Lamek said.

It must be noted that nuclear proliferation plays into maintaining a credible deterrence strategy and is not necessarily an aggressive policy.
 
US leads boycott of UN talks on nuclear weapons ban
UN General Assembly begins negotiations on prohibiting weapons, but without any nuclear-capable states in attendance.

The United States, Britain and France are among almost 40 countries boycotting talks on a nuclear weapons ban treaty at the United Nations, according to Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the world body.

With none of the participants - more than 100 countries - at Monday's talks belonging to the group of states that possess nuclear weapons, the discussions were doomed to failure.

According to Haley, the countries skipping the talks "would love to have a ban on nuclear weapons, but in this day and time we can't honestly say we can protect our people by allowing bad actors to have them and those of us that are good trying to keep peace and safety not to have them."



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Speaking as the debate at the UN headquarters in New York got under way, Haley also mentioned North Korea, which has recently has carried out missile tests that violate UN resolutions.

"We have to be realistic. Is there anyone who thinks that North Korea would ban nuclear weapons?" Haley said. "North Korea would be the one cheering and all of us and the people we represent would be the ones at risk."

Haley spoke in a group of about 20 ambassadors from US allies who did not join the negotiations, including Britain, France, South Korea, Turkey and a number of countries from eastern Europe.

The ambassadors of Russia and China were notably absent, but both major nuclear powers are also sitting out the talks.

Britain's UN Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said: "The UK is not attending the negotiations on a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons because we do not believe that those negotiations will lead to effective progress on global nuclear disarmament."

Deputy French UN Ambassador Alexis Lamek said the security conditions were not right for a nuclear weapons ban treaty.

"In the current perilous context, considering in particular the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery, our countries continue to rely on nuclear deterrence for security and stability," Lamek said.

The new US administration of President Donald Trump is reviewing whether it will reaffirm the goal of a world without nuclear weapons, a White House aide said last week, referring to an aim embraced by previous Republican and Democratic presidents and required by a key arms control treaty.

Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, said in a statement: "It is disappointing to see some countries with strong humanitarian records standing with a government which threatens a new arms race."

'Disappointment with Obama'
The UN General Assembly in December adopted a resolution - 113 in favour to 35 against, with 13 abstentions - that decided to "negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination" and encouraged all member states to participate.



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But Britain, France, Israel, Russia and the US all voted no, while China, India and Pakistan abstained.

Even Japan - the only country to have suffered atomic attacks, in 1945 - voted against the talks, saying a lack of consensus over the negotiations could undermine progress on effective nuclear disarmament.

Al Jazeera's Rosalind Jordan, reporting from the UN headquarters, said that last year the administration of former US President Barack Obama opposed the resolution that authorised the UN conference on the nuclear weapons.

"It encouraged the NATO members to not take part in this year's negotiations to try to establish what would be a legally binding treaty," she said.

Leaders of the effort to ban the nuclear weapons include Austria, Ireland, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa and Sweden, supported by hundreds of NGOs.

They say the threat of nuclear disaster is growing thanks to tensions fanned by North Korea's nuclear weapons programme and an unpredictable new administration in Washington.

"There was disappointment with the Obama administration, which made some pledges, but then ignored most of them," said Fihn. "And now there are raised worries with the new US president."

Nevertheless, with experience from the campaigns against cluster munitions and landmines, Fihn believes there is a "good chance" a treaty will be adopted - if not necessarily after the first phase of negotiations, which will end in July.

And such a treaty would oblige major powers to revisit their policies sooner or later - even if, like Russia and the US, they're currently modernising their nuclear weapons arsenal.

"Even if major (nuclear weapon) producers don't sign it, they have a big impact," Fihn said of global treaties. "Look at Russia denying using cluster bombs in Syria. Why? They did not sign (the cluster munition ban), but they know it's bad."

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/03/leads-boycott-talks-nuclear-weapons-ban-170327191952287.html
 
All the P5 members skipped the talks. No need to waste their time as none of these countries or others will ever disarm.

Non-nuclear states were promised that the P-5s would gradually disarm if they agreed to sign the NPT. We said it was a lie and we've been proven right. Leaders of those non-nuclear states should be impeached for surrendering the rights of their people by believing these hypocrites.
 
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U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks while French Deputy Ambassador to the U.N. Alexis Lamek and British Ambassador to the United Nations Matthew Rycroft listen outside the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton Reuters


UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States, Britain and France are among almost 40 countries that will not join talks on a nuclear weapons ban treaty starting at the United Nations on Monday, said U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley.

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/a...-others-skip-nuclear-weapons-ban-treaty-talks


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North Korea and Kim Jong-un said thank ya all for making my job easy.
 
As long as countries like North Korea have nuclear weapons, the US will never relinquish its own. The US is actually set to modernize its arsenal and delivery capabilities over the next 15 years. These talks are a waste of time.
 
As long as countries like North Korea have nuclear weapons, the US will never relinquish its own. The US is actually set to modernize its arsenal and delivery capabilities over the next 15 years. These talks are a waste of time.

sure, what is good for US is also good for North Korean leader. What a paradox!
 
sure, what is good for US is also good for North Korean leader. What a paradox!

Actually, NPT would forbid NKorea to build nukes. North Korea need to disarm. Otherwise, its neighbors might also acquire nukes.

Just like India is owning nukes illegally. Forcing Pakistan to build nukes to counter India.
 
Actually, NPT would forbid NKorea to build nukes. North Korea need to disarm. Otherwise, its neighbors might also acquire nukes.

Just like India is owning nukes illegally. Forcing Pakistan to build nukes to counter India.

No country should abrogate its right to posses nukes as long as countries having records of grabbing far away lands by expelling the original inhabitants posses nukes.


No, you are wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_nuclear_weapons_stockpiles_and_nuclear_tests_by_country

Global nuclear weapons stockpiles have been gradually decreasing.

Decrease does not mean elimination. Even if Russia and the US possess only a thousand nukes that's more than enough to destroy those who oppose their hegemony. Of course the P-5 states would want to continue this unacceptable status quo by deceiving the weaker nations into believing their lies about the true intention of the NPT. Saddam and Qaddafi showed to the world what a great mistake it was for them not to posses nukes. Now Turkey is about to discover this bitter truth. One should not believe the words of the wicked wolves if he intends to protect his flock.
 
Decrease does not mean elimination.
At least it is on the way.

Is it your argument that since the current nuclear powers are merely reducing their nuclear weapons stockpiles and not eliminating, therefore, everybody should abandon the idea of non-nuclear weapons proliferation in the first place ?

This is why I do not take you seriously on this forum. Yours is a juvenile mind.
 

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