Topic: 2026 – Verification of Disarmament
Country: China
Delegate Name: Cameron Balis
2/1/26
Submitted to: DISEC
From: China
Topic: Verification of Disarmament
The world has been shaped by warfare. We now see that with much larger weapons than 80 years ago, naturally, the debate on these weapons that can be produced in mass clearly presents itself to this United Nations body. China believes that Verification of Disarmament of weapons is a high encroachment on a nation’s sovereignty. There are too many unanswered questions regarding who will conduct these verification inspections. For instance, what are the criteria to make it objective so it is not biased? To elaborate, how does an inspection ensure that a country is not lying about where its stockpile of weapons is? And, how do you ensure that a country will not just rearm the same missiles that they just disarmed for an inspection? With these questions, no major country should ever agree to whatever these concessions will be.
The People’s Republic of China does not see that this is a problem that the United Nations needs to be involved in. We are in a world where a first strike is going to be a constant threat, so why should we focus on disarmament? Instead, this is a situation for better diplomacy between nations, so that we might work together to ensure continued geopolitical peace. All while they each have weapons to defend themselves and their interests.
The committee for Disarmament and International Security should instead focus its efforts on diplomatic solutions between nations, ensuring that a peaceful resolution that benefits all sides will endure through debate. Instead of focusing on a topic of futility where the United Nations would instead upset a country’s national sovereignty due to encroachment, we should focus on the equality of major nations in debate on major issues. To also combat the inequality of verification, China would be willing to fund and have oversight over these proliferation agreements, along with assisting in the verification of disarmament, so that all countries have a voice in this mass movement.
Works Cited-
https://www.state.gov/releases/2026/02/statement-to-the-conference-on-disarmament/
https://www.armscontrol.org/blog/2025-12-11/china-signals-continuity-nuclear-policy-paper
https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/sipriinsight1904_0.pdf
