No Nuclear Powers to Participate in Nayarit Confab on Humanitarian Impact Kyodo News International
go to original February 12, 2014

ICAN Statement at the conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons: Civil society has come together to ask governments to recognize and address the humanitarian consequences of nuclear explosions. (Goodbyenukes)

The United States, Russia and the three other countries allowed to have nuclear weapons under the existing nonproliferation regime are expected to skip an international conference on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons, an envoy of host Mexico said Wednesday, citing their failure to register delegates for the event.

A similar conference was first held in Norway last March to put the spotlight on the humanitarian consequences of the use of nuclear weapons, but the five nuclear "haves" under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which also include Britain, China and France, did not participate, apparently fearing that such a meeting would propel talks on outlawing nuclear weapons.

The likely absence of the five countries from the meeting in Mexico - which is due to start Thursday with delegates expected to come from more than the 127 countries that participated in last year's conference - may deepen the chasm between the nuclear haves and "have-nots," who lead the efforts toward nuclear disarmament from humanitarian grounds.

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