Topic: 2025 – No First Use Policies and Nuclear Disarmament
Country: Ethiopia
Delegate Name: Ben Stuart
DELEGATE: Benjamin Stuart
COUNTRY: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
COMMITTEE: Disarmament & International Security Committee
TOPIC: No First Use Policies and Nuclear Disarmament
Nuclear weapons are a power that could cause massive damage to humanity yet a power held in the hands of just a few countries. Nuclear weapons have proliferated to and saturated 8-9 countries. These countries have the power to cause enormous amounts of human suffering and destruction. During volatile situations such as war predicaments between two countries can spiral out into disaster for the world.
Ethiopia believes that the only way to keep the world safe from nuclear weapons is to get rid of them altogether. To ensure the safety of the world now and the world of future generations nuclear weapons must be done away with for good. The devastation that can be wrought by nuclear weapons can be avoided. No first use, non proliferation, and eventual ridding of nuclear weapons can ensure the safety of humanity.
Ethiopia in the past has been a strong advocate for nuclear weapon safety. Ethiopia strongly supported the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear (TPNW) though it didn’t sign the treaty. This treaty calls for the wide prohibition of nuclear weapons and actions using nuclear weapons. Ethiopia has also supported other measures against nuclear weapons such as the treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Ethiopia hopes in this session of the Disarmament and International Security Committee to make the world safer from nuclear weapons. It advocates lasting measures against continued use, proliferation, and existence of nuclear weapons.
Works Cited
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“Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor.” Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor, 2017, banmonitor.org/profiles/ethiopia.
Statement by a Representative of Ethiopia at the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 11 Th Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. 2024, docs-library.unoda.org/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferation_of_Nuclear_Weapons_-Preparatory_Committee_for_the_Eleventh_Review_ConferenceSecond_session_(2024)/Ethiopia_GD_Statement_NPT.pdf.
“Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons | United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs.” Unoda.org, 2025, disarmament.unoda.org/en/our-work/weapons-mass-destruction/nuclear-weapons/treaty-prohibition-nuclear-weapons.
