Belarus speaks about nuclear weapons deployment at UN Security Council meeting
Valentin Rybakov. Photo courtesy of Belarus' Ministry of Foreign Affairs Nuclear weapons deployment in Belarus is a forced and purely retaliatory step in response to the unfriendly actions of the Western bloc, Belarus' Ambassador to the United Nations Valentin Rybakov said at the UN Security Council meeting on the threats to international peace and security on 31 March, BelTA has learned. Belarus is a consistent advocate of the process of nuclear disarmament non-proliferation.
The contribution of Belarus in nuclear disarmament is clear and indisputable. Its significance has has been repeatedly confirmed in numerous documents agreed in bilateral and multilateral formats.
In 1993 Belarus made a conscious choice to renounce nuclear weapons and acceded to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, becoming the first state in the former Soviet Union to voluntarily renounce the possibility to possess nuclear weapons without any preconditions or reservations,” the diplomat said.
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