“The international security landscape as it stands today should require us to engage in constructive and rigorous dialogue to overcome our differences, by engaging in continuous exchange, putting aside the political calculations that prevent us from moving forward on the substance of the themes included in the work program,” said Mr. Zniber at the opening of the 2022 Conference on Disarmament under the presidency of China.
The ambassador noted, in this sense, that the Conference on Disarmament remains an essential and indispensable body to achieve the most ardent wishes of the international community, that is to say, the fight against the accumulation of arms, to strengthen peace and security in the world.
He further noted that the current context marked by the Covid-19 pandemic has contributed to the multiplication and deepening of humanitarian crises in many regions, noting that these humanitarian crises are already favored by the climate of instability imposed by conflicts and threats to international peace and security.
“Indeed, if the Conference on Disarmament were to overcome these blockages, which is what we have been working on for many years, it could help to outline the agreements that we could establish in the short and medium term to reduce tensions and confront the enormous challenges that are emerging, in particular, the dual nature of high technologies and the supposed or real perceptions of threats, in terms of security,” he maintained.
Based on this observation, it is essential, he argued, that this year “we can achieve the adoption of a balanced work programme adapted to the need to negotiate openly and transparently the essential questions of nuclear disarmament, fissile materials, the protection of outer space, the arms race and any other question that we deem appropriate to address.”
Unfortunately, the ambassador noted, the Covid-19 pandemic has imposed a notable slowdown in all the major meetings that were to be held, outside the Conference on Disarmament, during the last two years, at their head the Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
The Non-Proliferation Treaty, despite its imperfections, is a multilateral, binding and most advanced legal instrument, he continued. “It is so because of its universality, its comprehensiveness and its uniqueness. It is the unique guarantee of seeing the world rid itself, in the long term, of the threat of nuclear weapons, and of their persistence,” he said.
Mr. Zniber also reiterated Morocco’s unwavering commitment to expanding the composition of this body to new members who are actively engaged in debates related to the themes examined within the Conference. Pending the achievement of this objective, Morocco strongly encourages the acceptance of requests for participation from observer members, which contribute to enriching and diversifying the discussions, he said.
“It is in the interest of the multilateral architecture for global disarmament to strengthen our body and its activities by returning to its original mandate and negotiating binding multilateral treaties,” Ambassador Zniber added.
2024-08-27 03:15:30