NEWYORK:
A resolution passed by United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday urged Pakistan, India and Israel to follow the terms of Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and drop their nuclear weapons, according to a report by Business Standard.
The resolution aims at achieving a nuclear weapon-free world and it marked out three nations to reduce nuclear-weapons.
The resolution also advised Pakistan, India and Israel to keep their nuclear facilities under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards, which prohibit nations from developing nuclear weapons.
The United States joined India , Pakistan and Israel to vote against this part of the resolution. However, France, Britain and Bhutan didn’t participate in voting.
The provision was passed with 165 votes in the 193-member UNGA, with 21 countries absent.
The resolution was passed with169 votes. Britain, Israel, North Korea and Russia also joined the US and India in voting against the overall resolution, while Pakistan, China, Bhutan, Micronesia and Palau abstained from voting.
The report stated that these resolutions are not imperative and carry only symbolic meaning under the UN Charter. UNGA also advised nations to take measures against terrorists who could have access to deadly weapons.
In a separate resolution, the reduction in operational readiness of nuclear weapons was stressed as after the end of cold war a huge number of nuclear weapons were found in active state. The resolution also made a plea to five nuclear states to re-evaluate the nuclear doctrines and ensure the low risk of the use of nuclear weapons.
The UN should focus on more important issues. Also Pakistan needs nuclear weapons. We need them to be able to protect ourselves from countries with conventional military superiority over us.
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