General Assembly: 91st plenary meeting, 79th session

Ending nuclear testing ‘a moral, strategic necessity’, underlines disarmament affairs chief, as General Assembly commemorates International Day.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / General Assembly
• Video Length: 03:10:27
• Production Date: 3 September 2025
• Asset Language: Arabic; English; French; Russian; Spanish; Chinese; Original
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY - IAEA
• Subject Topical: NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY; NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT; TECHNOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL DAYS; RADIATION; NUCLEAR SCIENCE; CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY; NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; ARMS RACE; MULTILATERALISM; CONFLICT
• MAMS Id: 3443645
• Parent Id: 3443018
• Alternate Title: MTG GA 79 SESSION 91 PLENARY 03 SEP 2025 AM

Description

As the General Assembly commemorated and promoted the International Day against Nuclear Tests today, Member States reflected on eight decades since the first nuclear test and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, warning that the quest for nuclear disarmament remains unfinished and more urgent than ever.

This is a “legacy we cannot disavow”, but also a “solemn reminder of our mission to prevent the scourge of war and nuclear annihilation”, President of the General Assembly Philémon Yang (Cameroon), told the 193-member organ.

“While progress has been made, nuclear disarmament is not a task that ends,” he added, emphasizing that to “rid the world of nuclear weapons, we must first halt nuclear testing”, which “fuels arms races” and inflicts “devastating impacts on people and planet”.

General and complete disarmament - Item 98: High-level meeting to commemorate and promote the International Day against Nuclear Tests

• 10:00: Opening
• 10:15: Keynote addresses
• 10:45: Plenary
• Strengthening of the United Nations system - Item 123 (a): Draft decision (A/79/L.119/Rev.1)
• Continuation of explanations of vote after the vote

Speakers:

• Office for Disarmament Affairs
• Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
• African Group
• Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)
• Arab Group
• Friends of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
• Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Austria
• Costa Rica
• Mexico
• Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
• Guatemala
• Kyrgyzstan
• Japan
• Cambodia
• Philippines
• Uruguay
• Ukraine

Related Sites and Documents

UN Meetings Coverage

A/79/L.119/Rev.1

A/RES/72/51

A/79/PV.91