China's disarmament ambassador Li Chijiang told the UN General Assembly First
Committee on the 16th that global security has become more complex and severe,
multilateral nuclear arms-control confrontation has intensified, and concern
about a nuclear arms race and nuclear war has risen. He said Cold War thinking,
double standards and unilateralism are the main drivers undermining strategic
stability, non-proliferation and global nuclear governance. Li urged states to
adopt a common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable approach to security,
reiterated that nuclear weapons must not be used and nuclear war must not be
fought, and called on nuclear-armed states to abandon policies of winning a
nuclear war and first-use, and to negotiate a no-first-use treaty and an
international legal instrument on nuclear security assurances.
