Pope Francis has said a
world without nuclear weapons is possible in a message to the
United Nations conference seeking to bring this about.
"It is an exercise in hope and it is my wish that it may
also constitute a decisive step along the road towards a world
without nuclear weapons," read the message to the United Nations
Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to Prohibit
Nuclear Weapons, Leading Towards their Total Elimination, the
first part of which is taking place in New York.
"Although this is a significantly complex and long-term goal,
it is not beyond our reach".
He pointed out that money currently spent on nuclear weapons
could be used for "the promotion of peace and integral human
development, as well as the fight against poverty".
"An ethics and a law based on the threat of mutual
destruction - and possibly the destruction of all mankind - are
contradictory to the very spirit of the United Nations," he
said.
"We must therefore commit ourselves to a world without
nuclear weapons, by fully implementing the Non-Proliferation
Treaty, both in letter and spirit".
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