On United Nations (UN) Day (24th October, 2020) the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) get 50th ratifications required for entry into force.
Honduras 50th country to rafity
- Honduras became the 50th Member State to ratify this treaty.
- With this the TPNW will now come into force on 22 January, 2021.
About Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
- The treaty declares that the countries ratifying it must “never under any circumstance develop, test, produce, manufacture or otherwise acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices.”
- So far, the main nuclear powers of the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, China and France, have not signed the accord. India has also not signed this treaty.
- Adopted on 7 July 2017 at a UN conference in New York, the Treaty represented the first multilateral legally binding instrument for nuclear disarmament in two decades.
(Source: UN News)
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