{"id":185358,"date":"2022-07-27T16:15:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T08:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=185358"},"modified":"2022-07-27T16:15:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T08:15:58","slug":"buddhist-leader-calls-on-states-to-commit-to-no-first-use-of-nuclear-weapons-in-advance-of-npt-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=185358","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist Leader Calls on States to Commit to &#8220;No First Use&#8221; of Nuclear Weapons in Advance of NPT Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>TOKYO, July 27 (Bernama-AsiaNet) &#8212;<\/strong> On July 26, ahead of the Tenth NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) Review Conference that opens on August 1 at UN Headquarters in New York, Soka Gakkai International (SGI) President Daisaku Ikeda called on the five nuclear-weapon states to declare that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons in a conflict: the principle of &#8220;No First Use.&#8221;<br><br>Today the risk that nuclear weapons will be used is at its highest level since the Cold War. Ikeda, a passionate campaigner for nuclear abolition for over 60 years, urges the five nuclear-weapon states under the NPT &#8212; the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and China &#8212; to give substance to a joint statement made by their leaders on January 3, 2022, that &#8220;a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought,&#8221; by declaring policies of No First Use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=43748\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=43748\">http:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=43748<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, July 27 (Bernama-AsiaNet) &#8212; On July 26, ahead of the Tenth NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) Review Conference that opens on August 1 at UN Headquarters in New York, Soka Gakkai International (SGI) President Daisaku Ikeda called on the five nuclear-weapon states to declare that they will never be the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[315],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185358"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185361,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185358\/revisions\/185361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}