Antonio Guterres issued a dire warning today (Image: AP/Rex)

We know that the world already has a lot to worry about, but unfortunately nuclear war should be placed a little higher on the list, according to the UN Secretary General.

Antonio Guterres today issued a dire warning that “humanity is nothing but a misunderstanding, a miscalculation due to nuclear annihilation.”

According to him, the region is already “on the way to catastrophe” due to the conflicts in the Middle East and Asia.

According to him, the crisis in Ukraine and the Korean peninsula was also a point of danger.

He made the comments at the start of a month-long conference to discuss the nonproliferation treaty.

This landmark treaty was signed more than 50 years ago to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons and ultimately achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.

Guterres told ministers, officials and diplomats that the talks would take place “at a critical time for our collective peace and security” and “at a time of nuclear threats not seen since the height of the Cold War,” he said.

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According to him, the reason a nuclear disaster has never been seen is largely due to chance.

“We’ve been incredibly lucky so far,” he said. But luck is not a strategy.

The conference “is an opportunity to develop measures to prevent certain catastrophes and put humanity on a new path towards a world free of nuclear weapons,” he said.

But Guterres warned that “geopolitical weapons have reached new heights,” saying that with some 13,000 nuclear weapons in the world’s arsenal, countries seeking “false security” are on “doomsday.” Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent on weapons.

“All of this is being done at a time when the risk of nuclear proliferation is high and safeguards to prevent escalation are weakening,” he said. .” ‘

He urged conference participants to urgently strengthen and reaffirm the 1977 Code Against the Use of Nuclear Weapons. Make a renewed commitment to reduce nuclear weapons and make unremitting efforts to eliminate them. He refers to “rising tensions in the Middle East and Asia.” Promote peaceful uses of nuclear technology.

“Future generations will count on your commitment to move away from the gap,” he told ministers and diplomats. It is time to get rid of it.

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, known as the NPT, in force since 1970, has 191 member states and provides the most extensive protection of any disarmament treaty.

Under that provision, the first five nuclear-weapon states—the United States, China, Russia (then the Soviet Union), the United Kingdom, and France—agreed to negotiate the final dismantling of their nuclear weapons, and the non-nuclear-weapons. the states agreed to negotiate but promised not to. Get them in return. Guarantee that nuclear energy can be developed for peaceful purposes.

India and Pakistan, which are not members of the NPT, were bombed. North Korea also ratified the deal but later announced its withdrawal. Unsigned Israel is believed to have nuclear weapons, but has neither confirmed nor denied this.

However, the treaty purportedly limited the number of newly arrived nuclear weapons as a framework for international disarmament cooperation.

The meeting, which concludes on August 26, is aimed at building consensus on next steps, but hopes for a substantive agreement are low.

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