UN chief: new arms race already begun
Read on the website Vestnik KavkazaA new arms race is already in underway in the world, and disarmament treaties are under threat, UN Secretary General António Guterres said.
"We are witnessing a new arms race. The disarmament treaties that were concluded in the last century are under threat", he said during a speech while visiting Hiroshima, which was targeted by a nuclear bomb 77 years ago.
The head of the world organization expressed hope that the Review Conference of the countries-participants of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, held at the UN headquarters in New York, would bring a positive result. "I see movement in the right direction", the UN chief said.