Advocate a nuclear disarmament path in which one’s own security and common security are indivisible and maintain global strategic stability, uphold the inseparability of security rights and security obligation and establish a fair and just nuclear non-proliferation regime, uphold the inseparability of security and development and safeguard the right of all States Parties to the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. This is what is required for building an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization.

2. Nuclear Disarmament

The measures of disarmament should maintain fairness and balance of power, to ensure the security right of all countries, and make sure that no certain country or group of nations gains an advantageous position over others at any stage. In this regard, nuclear disarmament should follow the principles of “maintaining global strategic stability” and “undiminished security for all” and take a step-by-step approach.

The international nuclear arms control system is crucial to maintain global strategic stability and promote world peace and security. Efforts should be made to prevent it from being eroded, undermined or sabotaged. The United States and Russia should settle their disputes regarding the implementation of New START Treaty through dialogue as soon as possible, and reach an extension or alternative arrangement before its expiration in 2026.

Countries possessing the largest nuclear arsenals should fulfill their special and primary responsibilities for nuclear disarmament and continue to make drastic and substantive reductions in their nuclear arsenals in a verifiable, irreversible and legally-binding manner, so as to create conditions for other countries to join the nuclear disarmament process towards general and complete nuclear disarmament.

“A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought”. Welcome the Joint Statement of Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Nuclear Arms Races issued in January 2022, support the five nuclear-weapon States in implementing the Joint Statement in a proactive manner, strengthen dialogue and cooperation on the basis of mutual respect and equality.

As a logical first step in implementing the above Joint Statement, nuclear-weapon States should abandon the nuclear deterrence policy based on the first use of nuclear weapons and adopt the policy of no-first-use of nuclear weapons, negotiate and conclude a treaty on “mutual no-first-use of nuclear weapons” or issue a joint political statement in this regard. (军控协会)