The award of the Nobel Peace Prize
to the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear
Weapons (ICAN) "confirms the priority that nuclear disarmament
has assumed in the eyes of world public opinion", the Italian
foreign ministry said Friday.
It said Italy "shares this priority, in the framework of
international commitments taken on, as it fully shares the deep
concern for the catastrophic use of nuclear weapons and the goal
of a world free from such devices".
The foreign ministry underscored that this objective "must be
pursued through an inclusive, gradual and realistic process,
aimed at favouring an irreversible, transparent and verifiable
process of nuclear disarmament".
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty remains "central", the
ministry said, also as far as concerns nuclear disarmament.
"Italy is committed to strengthening it and favouring its
internationalisation".
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