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The UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, said, “Even wars have rules.” UNIFEED

The Secretary-General addressed the annual event to mark the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, saying that the only way to prevent the use of nuclear weapons is to eliminate them. UNIFEED

Speaking at the General Assembly’s High-Level Debate, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, “the future is being shaped by a struggle, a struggle between the global majority in favor of a fairer distribution of global benefits and civilized diversity, and between the few who wield neocolonial methods of subjugation in order to maintain their domination which is slipping through their hands.” UNIFEED

UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu called on all States that have previously declared moratoriums on nuclear testing, to “reaffirm these moratoriums” and to take “immediate” steps to sign and all ratify the Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). UNIFEED

The ten elected members of the Security Council called for all restraint in the use of the veto, “especially on actions aimed at preventing mass atrocities.” UNIFEED

The President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, said that “as independent nations increasingly align themselves towards cooperation and convergence, certain powers are attempting to incite conflicts in different regions.” UNIFEED

Addressing the General Assembly, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Member States, “The mass destruction is gaining its momentum. The aggressor is weaponizing many other things and those things are used not only against our country but against all of yours as well.” UNIFEED

On the commencement of the control release of water from Fukushima, IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi said, “the independent sampling from the agency has been confirming that the levels of Tritium are well below the operational agreed standards.” IAEA

Arms negotiation between Russia and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) are actively advancing, said the United States Representative to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, delivering a joint statement on behalf of the US, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the United Kingdom. UNIFEED

A top political affairs official told the Security Council that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK’s) unannounced launches represent a serious risk to international civil aviation and maritime traffic.” UNIFEED