(MENAFN) Iran has reaffirmed its position that nuclear weapons must be eliminated because they constitute a severe threat to humanity.
At the High-Level Plenary Meeting of the United Nation General Assembly to Promote the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, Reza Najafi, Iran's deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, made a statement, “I would like to reaffirm the global responsibility towards nuclear disarmament as a priority while paying homage to the victims of nuclear weapons at the hands of the U.S. twice in 1945.”
He also mentioned that “the threat to humanity by nuclear weapons is serious, and unfortunately, the possibility of their use is high. Relying on nuclear deterrence, lowering the threshold, its arms race, nuclear sharing and the vivid cases of threats to use, the existence of almost 13,000 nuclear warheads in the arsenals maintained and modernized, all prove to be a type of iceberg for the magnitude of this threat.”
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