U.N. chief takes mighty swipe at Trump over his nuclear agenda
2018-08-14 09:39:07 source：Asahi Shimbun
August 13, 2018
NAGASAKI — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres mounted a thinly veiled attack on the Trump administration during his Aug. 9 peace ceremony address here to mark the 73rd anniversary of this city's atomic bombing.
Guterres, the first U.N. chief to attend the annual ceremony in Nagasaki, deftly sidestepped naming the United States, but there was no disguising that his speech was a scathing indictment of the Trump administration's position on nuclear arms.
“States in possession of nuclear weapons are spending vast sums to modernize their arsenals," he said. "More than $1.7 trillion was spent in 2017 on arms and armies, the highest level since the end of the Cold War."
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