DISARMAMENT: ‘UN conference adopts treaty banning nuclear weapons’, UN News Centre, 7 July 2017

Countries at the UN in New York adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the first multilateral legally-binding instrument for nuclear disarmament to negotiated in 20 years. The treaty - adopted by 122 in favour, one against (Netherlands), with one abstention (Singapore) - prohibits a full range of nuclear-weapon-related activities, such as undertaking to develop, test, produce, manufacture, acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, as well as the use or threat of use of these weapons. However, the United States, Russia and other nuclear-weapon States, as well as many of their allies, and North Korea did not join the talks. 'UN conference adopts treaty banning nuclear weapons', UN News Centre, 7 July 2017