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UN PhotoHigh-level Meeting to Launch the Friends of a Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty (FMCT)
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The Friends of a Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty (FMCT), a cross-regional group with the participation of both nuclear weapon States and non-nuclear-weapon States, aims to maintain and enhance political attention on a FMCT and to contribute to expanding the support for the immediate commencement of negotiations to this end.
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- Keynote speech: Prime Minister of Japan KISHIDA Fumio
- Statements from NAKAMITSU Izumi, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs
- Statements from high-level participants: FMCT Friends member States
For the first time since the peak of the Cold War, the world is on the cusp of a reversal of the decreasing trend of the global number of nuclear weapons. The recent rapid expansion of nuclear arsenals threatens to spark a new arms race and reverse the previous gains of nuclear disarmament, taking us further away from realizing our collective vision of a world without nuclear weapons.
Against this backdrop, there is an urgent necessity to constrain the number of nuclear weapons at its root, by banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices.