“Geopolitical divides, relentless arms competition <…> have created a total deadlock,” he said at the Conference on Disarmament. “Militaries are developing terrifying new applications of new and emerging technologies – including artificial intelligence and autonomous weapons systems.”
“The nuclear shadow that loomed over humanity last century has returned,” he went on to say.
“Some statesmen regularly imply that they are fully prepared to unleash nuclear hell – an outrageous threat that the world must condemn with clarity and force,” the UN chief continued, TASS reported.
Guterres repeated his call to implement all nuclear disarmament commitments, including under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and to bring the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty into force.
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