Ray Acheson and Beatrice Fihn |
Reaching Critical Will of WILPF
26 September 2013
The overwhelming majority of countries condemned the continued existence of nuclear weapons and called for their banning and elimination at the first ever
UN high-level meeting on nuclear disarmament on 26 September 2013. While some of the nuclear-armed states spoke disparagingly about the meeting’s importance, the rest of the international community demanded immediate action to remove the scourge of these weapons of terror once and for all.
The majority of participating states clearly voiced their frustration with the perpetual lack of progress and expressed their sense of urgency at achieving concrete goals. “Our collective efforts to move away from the nuclear abyss have remained too modest in ambition and brought only limited success,” warned the
President of Austria. “Nuclear weapons should be stigmatized, banned and eliminated before they abolish us.”
