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UN committee adopts Japan-led resolution on nuclear abolition
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The UN General Assembly is expected to formally adopt a Japan-led resolution seeking to abolish nuclear weapons at a plenary meeting in early December, after its First Committee approved the text by majority vote.
Key facts
- North Korea is urged to return to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and comply fully with both the treaty and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards as soon as possible.
- The resolution also records the absence of consensus at the 2026 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which closed in May.
- In the resolution, reference to that treaty extends only to its adoption in 2017 and entry into force in 2021.
- In the disarmament committee, 150 countries supported the text and 25 abstained, among them the United States and France.
Summary
North Korea is urged to return to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and comply fully with both the treaty and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards as soon as possible.
The resolution specifies that the country “cannot be recognized as a nuclear-weapon state”.