A comprehensive disarmament is the only way towards permanent peace

Lisa Zanjarni – Vatican City

“Peace is not possible without real disarmament,” the Apostolic Chair was repeated on Thursday. Bishop Gabriel Kakia said that the current race towards re -armament and renewing global deterrence policies are not in response to the serious challenges facing the world today, characterized by political instability and erosion of international peace.

Indeed, “Confidence in fear ultimately moves the international community away from the search for permanent and sustainable peace,” said the permanent observer of the Vatican before the United Nations, remembering Pope Francis’s permanent call for global disarmament.

The logic of fear and deterrence displays international peace

In his speech on the general debate of the United Nations Preparatory Committee for the Treaty Review of the Nuclear weapons for 2026 in New York, the Caccia President has strongly condemned the increase around the world in the world, the design of confidence in the world, the promotion of confidence in the world, and the design. “

The need to eliminate nuclear arsenics

The Apostolic Chair delegation described three decisive anxiety. First, the head of bishops Caccia called for the end of nuclear deterrence, and at the same time that all countries urged nuclear weapons to fulfill their obligations under Article VI of the TNP Treaty Treaty of 1970, “in good -intention negotiations to reduce ostens and eliminate the nuclear lardles.”

He said: “To achieve complete disarmament and prevent catastrophic human consequences that would derive from the use of nuclear weapons, it is necessary to resume a real dialogue to create binding restrictions on the possession of these weapons.”

The threat of new technologies

Next, the Vatican Nuncio highlighted the evolutionary risks posed by advanced technologies, including high -end -of -vocal missiles and online weakness, warning that it may increase the possibility of calculation errors or cross versions.

He said: “These concerns are exacerbated by integrating independent components, which raise moral, humanitarian, legal and critical security issues.”

The need to reduce military spending to fight hunger

Third, Monsignor Caccia highlighted the urgent need for the international community to redirect military spending towards re -diversification, diversification and restructuring for peaceful purposes.

In this sense, he repeated the proposal of the Holy See to redirect resources that, otherwise, to weapons and military expenditures towards a specific fund to eliminate hunger and enhance development in the poorest regions in the world, “providing a more sympathetic and sustainable approach to dealing with inequality in the world and expressing human resurrection.”

Likewise, he stressed that “a world free of nuclear weapons is not only possible, but it is necessary,” and bishops, Kashia, ended his encouraging statement to continue the efforts made to explore how TNP and the TPNW -Treaty Treaty can serve each other.

An unprecedented increase in military spending around the world in 2024

According to the prestigious international institute in Stockholm Peace Research (SIPRI), global military expenditures amounted to $ 2718,000 million in 2024, which represents an increase of 9.4 % in 2023 and the largest increase in years since the end of the Cold War.

The data published in its recent annual report, which was presented this week, showed that military spending increased in all regions of the world, with special growth in Europe and the Middle East, where important wars are operated in Ukraine and Gaza, at the same time that military tensions increase from Europe to Asia. In this regard, SIPRI warned that the end of the global cycle of weapons is not hinting.