Ban Ki-Moon warns about Nuke threat

UN: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon warned that the world is under a real nuclear threat and made a call to work on the elimination of all nuclear weapons.

Even after 65 years of the first atomic bomb attack over Hiroshima world is still under the shadow of nuclear danger, Moon said.

Ban Ki-Moon questioned how long will it take to get rid of the nuke risk at the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

He pointed out that the NPT is the most important multilateral agreement on history, although is not perfect, and constitutes the cornerstone of the non-proliferation regime and has an almost universal membership.

UN Secretary General warned about the new and varied forms of threats in this area, among them he mentioned terrorism, the black market of technology and material of that class and the risk of regional conflict range nuclear magnitudes. United Nations, Prensa Latina