Labor Government Urged to Sign UN Treaty Banning Nukes

Published on November 24, 2023

The Albanese Labor government is under mounting pressure to live up to an election promise and sign a United Nations treaty banning nuclear weapons. A group of independent parliamentarians including David Pocock, Allegra Spender, Helen Haines, Andrew Wilkie, and Zali Steggall have called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to honour Labor’s promise to sign the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPWN). The UN treaty, which was adopted in 2017 and came into force in 2021, has been signed by 97 nations. Signatories are prohibited from developing, testing, producing, acquiring, possessing, stockpiling, using, or threatening to use nuclear weapons. The lawmakers urged the Labor government to sign the treaty “without delay.”...

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