Last year, the UK published our Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy. We will carry on pressing for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty to enter into force and for negotiations on a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty in the Conference on Disarmament.īut as you all know, we have to acknowledge the growing challenges to international security.

The UK will continue to play a leading role in disarmament by pioneering verification work, championing transparency and advancing risk reduction. Indeed, ours is the smallest stockpile of any recognised nuclear state. We are the only Nuclear Weapon State to have decreased our deterrent capability to a single delivery system. Since the Cold War, the UK has dramatically reduced the number of its nuclear weapons, while de-targeting and de-alerting those that remain. It demonstrates that we take our responsibilities as a Nuclear Weapon State seriously, and that we are committed to transparency and accountability. Our National Report, published last November, outlines what we have done to implement the Treaty since 2015. Let me reaffirm the UK’s unequivocal undertaking to achieve the total elimination of our nuclear arsenal, alongside the other Nuclear Weapon States. This Treaty is the only route to that goal. That includes Article 6, and our ultimate goal of a world without nuclear weapons. The United Kingdom remains firmly committed to fulfilling its obligations under the Treaty. This Tenth Review Conference is long overdue, so I am pleased that we have finally come together to advance this vital work. Mr Tochytskyi, we salute you, we salute the Ukrainian people as you stand up against aggression and oppression.

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