Guterres’ request to America and Russia to revive the New Start Treaty

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on the United States and Russia to renew negotiations on the New Start Treaty and work towards a new agreement to replace it.

During his speech at the Security Council meeting on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, Guterres emphasized the vital need of both countries, which have the most important nuclear arsenals in the world, for a new nuclear and missile agreement in order to set an example in nuclear disarmament. resume negotiations for the full implementation of the New Start Agreement.

The START agreement was signed for the first time at the end of the life of the former Soviet Union between this country and the United States to control nuclear weapons. However, an updated version of the agreement was signed in 2010 between Moscow and Washington, and both sides pledged to reduce their strategic nuclear arsenals and inspect each other’s nuclear sites.

Antonio Guterres called the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki an atomic massacre, but did not mention that the United States had committed it.

Guterres said: I thank the Japanese government for convening the Council on the vital issue of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. Japan knows better than any other country on earth the brutal cost of nuclear holocaust. But almost eight decades after the burning of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons remain a clear and real threat to world peace and security.

On August 9, 1945, at 11:2 in the morning, the American Air Force dropped an atomic bomb called “Fat Man” with a capacity of 20 kilotons and a mass of 4.5 tons on Nagasaki. More than 73,000 people died and disappeared, and another 35,000 people later died from radiation exposure and injuries. More than 50% of the victims were burned, 30% were injured by the shock wave, and 20% were exposed to penetrating radiation. The fire destroyed most of the residential buildings. The consequences of the second bombing in Hiroshima that occurred on August 6 were no less terrible than the first bombing.