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Ban urges momentum on global disarmament talks
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 24 - 09 - 2010


UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged
governments to revitalize momentum on disarmament and non-
proliferation, one of his key priorities since taking office.
He was addressing a high-level meeting aimed at ending the
continued "long inertia" on the Conference on Disarmament, the 65-
country forum established in 1979 to negotiate arms control and
disarmament agreements, dpa reported.
Ban said the Geneva-based conference - "the undisputed home of
international arms control efforts" - since last year adopting its
first programme of work in more than a decade, has been unable to
translate this breakthrough into substantive progress.
"We all believe that the multilateral disarmament machinery should
deliver more, and more quickly. Only the political will of member
states can make that happen," Ban said at the meeting held on the
sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
Ban noted they were meeting only two days after a UN summit on the
anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
"Since the MDGs were first articulated a decade ago, world
military expenditure has risen by 50 per cent to more than 1.5
trillion dollars," he said.
"Imagine what we could do if we devoted these resources to poverty
reduction ... climate-change mitigation ... food security ... global
health and other global development challenges."
He said that disarmament and non-proliferation are not only
essential for international peace and security, but also for building
confidence among countries and strengthening regional stability.
He cited as encouraging developments the New START Treaty between
the United States and Russia and an agreement reached at the 2010 NPT
Review Conference in New York.
"We have built important momentum. This is hard-won momentum, and
we should build on recent achievements," Ban said.
"Yet much remains to be done - both on weapons of mass destruction
and conventional weaponry. The next few years are critical. We can
push forward on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament or risk
sliding back."


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