General Assembly Meets on General and Complete Disarmament to Commemorate International Day against Nuclear Tests

Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High
Representative for Disarmament Affairs, addresses, on behalf of the Secretary-General, the General Assembly meeting on general and complete disarmament to commemorate and promote the International Day against Nuclear Tests. The high-level plenary meeting raises awareness "about the effects of nuclear weapon test explosions or any other nuclear explosions and the need for their cessation as one of the means of achieving the goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world".
Seated at dais is Volkan Bozkir (left), President of the seventy-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly, and Kenji Nakano, Chief of the General Assembly Affairs Branch, Department for General Assembly and Conference Management (DGACM).