Nigeria will protect democracy under my leadership’.President Muhammadu Buhari has called for a United Nations delegation to urgently negotiate with North Korea over the development of accelerated nuclear weapons by the country.
Addressing the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly yesterday in New York, United States, Buhari said all necessary pressure and diplomatic efforts must be brought to bear on North Korea to accept a peaceful resolution of the crisis as, since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, the world has never come so close to the threat of nuclear war as it is now.
“As Hiroshima and Nagasaki painfully remind us, if we fail, the catastrophic and devastating human loss and environmental degradation cannot be imagined. The crisis in the Korean peninsula underscores the urgency for all member states, guided by the spirit of enthroning a safer and more peaceful world, to ratify without delay the Treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons, which will be open for signature here tomorrow.
“While the international community grapples to resolve these conflicts, we must be mindful and focus on the widening inequalities within societies, and the gap between the rich and the poor nations. These inequalities and gaps are part of the underlining root causes of competition for resources, frustration and anger leading to spiralling instability.“In all these crises, the primary victims are the people, the most vulnerable being women and children. That is why the theme of this session ‘Focusing on People: Striving for Peace and Decent Life for All on a Sustainable Planet’ is most apposite.”
The president implored the UN not to allow new conflicts to make it lose focus on unresolved conflicts.“For example, several UN Security Council Resolutions from 1967 on the Middle East crisis remain unimplemented
“As Hiroshima and Nagasaki painfully remind us, if we fail, the catastrophic and devastating human loss and environmental degradation cannot be imagined. The crisis in the Korean peninsula underscores the urgency for all member states, guided by the spirit of enthroning a safer and more peaceful world, to ratify without delay the Treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons, which will be open for signature here tomorrow.
“While the international community grapples to resolve these conflicts, we must be mindful and focus on the widening inequalities within societies, and the gap between the rich and the poor nations. These inequalities and gaps are part of the underlining root causes of competition for resources, frustration and anger leading to spiralling instability.“In all these crises, the primary victims are the people, the most vulnerable being women and children. That is why the theme of this session ‘Focusing on People: Striving for Peace and Decent Life for All on a Sustainable Planet’ is most apposite.”
The president implored the UN not to allow new conflicts to make it lose focus on unresolved conflicts.“For example, several UN Security Council Resolutions from 1967 on the Middle East crisis remain unimplemented
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