Vatican's U.N. nuncio cites 'duty' to work for disarmament

Published: 2005-10-04

NEW YORK (CNS) -- The nations of the world "have a duty" to work for disarmament, the Vatican nuncio to the United Nations said Oct. 3. "The great majority of states want to move the disarmament agenda forward surely and speedily," Archbishop Celestino Migliore said at a meeting of the General Assembly's First Committee, which handles disarmament and security issues. He called arms control and disarmament "fundamental pillars of the architecture for peace" and criticized the recent U.N. 60th anniversary summit of world leaders for failing to act on draft proposals that would have pressed for global progress toward disarmament and the strengthening of international conventions or treaties against nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Archbishop Migliore called it "deplorable" that last May's conference to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty "ended without a single substantive decision."

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