UN Demilitarization Debate: Pakistan Attacks ‘Nuclear Doublespeak’

Pakistan criticized the duplicity applied by some states, who encouraged nuclear disarmament but were lacking in doing the same thing themselves.

At a session of the UN Disarmament Commission, a subsidiary of the General Assembly, Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi voiced her opinion that several nuclear-armed states were quick to promote nuclear disarmament for other states but failed to get rid of their huge inventories of nuclear weapons.

“This doublespeak has only aggravated the sense of insecurity among other states,” she told the 35-member commission.

“Instead of fulfilling their legal disarmament obligations, these States have exclusively pursued non-proliferation with messianic zeal,” she said. “This gap between legality and reality has eroded faith in these processes.”

Having US-India nuclear agreements in view, Lodhi stated that certain nuclear weapon states had conducted and concluded violating nuclear partnership agreements, including granting waivers, which contradicts disarmament doctrines.

According to the Ambassador, nuclear disarmament was being hindered by a few who wished to bypass the Conference on Disarmament’s vision to partial non-proliferation means such as Fissile Materials Cut-Off Treaty (FMCT).

Buttressing on Pakistan’s standpoint on the FMCT, she stated that the treaty is intolerant by nature and fails to recognize the huge load of fissile material that would violate the security of certain states while being rather cheap for those with large fissile stocks.

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