In this file photo, US Under-Secretary of State Andrea Thompson (C) and the US delegation attend a Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) conference with the UN Security Council s five permanent members (P5) China, France, Russia, Britain, and US, in Beijing, China, January 30, 2019. ─ AP/File
ISLAMABAD: A senior Pakistani official has expressed concern over the international security environment and asked the Conference on Disarmament, the multilateral negotiating forum on disarmament, to come out of its “stagnation”.
Director General at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Arms Control and Disarmament Division Kamran Akhtar, while speaking at a webinar hosted by Strategic Vision Institute (SVI) on ‘NPT and Promise of Disarmament’, said: “We are having an international security environment that has seen erosion of exiting treaty framework.”