July 24, 2024

China has urged the US to abandon the "nuclear sharing" and "extended deterrence" arrangements, withdraw nuclear weapons deployed overseas, abandon the development and deployment of a global missile defense system, and immediately cease the deployment of land-based intermediate-range missiles in the Asia-Pacific region at a UN Office for Disarmament Affairs session on Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

China has always believed that the policy of nuclear-weapon states jointly adopting a no-first-use policy is an effective measure to reduce strategic risks, Sun Xiaobo, Director-General of the Department of Arms Control of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, addressed the session on Tuesday.

The conference on disarmament should start substantive work as soon as possible on concluding an international legal instrument on not using or threatening to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear-weapon states or nuclear-weapon-free-zones, Sun said. 

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