United States - Vatican signs UN Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

22 September 2017

New York, United States - September 2017 - On Wednesday, September 20, the Holy See signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Signing for and on behalf of the Holy See was the Vatican foreign minister, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher. The Treaty was adopted last July 7 at the end of the United Nations conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination. The text would enter into force 90 days after at least 50 countries both sign and ratify it. According to a UN statement, the nuclear threat has today reached "its peak since the end of the Cold War." "There are still always about 15,000 nuclear warheads in the world," said UN Secretary-General António Guterres, of Portugal. The aim of the new pact is to strengthen the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which entered into force in 1970, and the Treaty on the Total Prohibition of Nuclear Testing, which the Vatican adhered to in 1996, but has yet entered into force.
Source: Zenit

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