President Elbegdorj makes statement on Nuclear Disarmament

The President of Mongolia Ts.Elbegdorj is currently attending the High-level Meetings at the 68th Session of the General Assembly. Yesterday President Elbegdorj attended the Nuclear Disarmament meeting on September 26th.

The Nuclear Disarmament meeting was the most focused on subject by the world during the UN 68th Session of the General Assembly.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the President of the 68th session of the General Assembly John Ashe made opening speeches at the first ever discussion on Nuclear Disarmament at the high-level meetings of the 68th Session of the General Assembly.

Representatives and leaders of the Governments of 15 countries including Mongolia, Iran, Japan, Austria, Cuba, Nigeria exchanged views on Nuclear Disarmament, urging greater efforts and immediate action toward the world being free of nuclear threats and accelerating nuclear disarmament actions.

The Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe said in his remarks; “I support the UN Secretary-General"s five point proposal on nuclear weapons, agree to the point that the issue that needs to be focused on is a ban of nuclear weapons.”

The new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expressed officially Teheran"s stand on nuclear weapons. President Hassan Rouhani commented that “Iran needs a large amount of nuclear energy to keep pace with the rest of the world and to become a developed country. Every country can be developed if it chooses the right path for development.”

President Elbegdorj said in his speech “in its efforts toward reaching a world free of nuclear weapons, Mongolia, sandwiched between two large nuclear powers, declared a non-nuclear-weapon status 20 years ago. Now we are trying to create new actions to promote nuclear disarmament from our non-nuclear status.”

“Mongolia"s non nuclear weapon status was ratified with the support of the international community and as well as national flexibility and constant policy when Mongolia enacted a law in 2002 with various activities relating to prohibited nuclear weapons in Mongolia.

In 2012, the Permanent Representatives to the United Nations of the five nuclear weapon states (the United States, China, France, Russian Federation, and United Kingdom, known as the P5) approved Mongolia"s non-nuclear weapon status and they affirmed their intent to respect Mongolia’s nuclear-weapon-free status and not to contribute to any act that would violate it. It is clear evidence that even a small country can make an effort to build a nuclear free world.”

“Mongolia is seeking to cooperate with Northeast Asian countries on securing the region as a non-nuclear weapon zone as a country that has had experience of securing its own security using democratic politics and diplomat ways.

It is not an easy task but we know that such a goal requires courage and political tenacity to realize stability. Strengthening faith is necessary. Based on the goal to strengthen faith in the region, I suggested to initiate an Ulaanbaatar summit to discuss the security issues of the Northeast Asian region and invited representative from the region for negotiations.”

SOURCE OF THIS ARTICLE : News.mn

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