Published on 28 October 2016

Nuclear weapons ban: Switzerland calls for consensus-oriented negotiations and the inclusion of all stakeholders

Bern, 28.10.2016 - Switzerland is actively working at the multilateral level to achieve the long-term goal of a world without nuclear weapons. Achieving the desired goal of nuclear disarmament requires the broadest possible support for a ban on nuclear weapons. Because the resolution to launch talks on a nuclear weapons ban did not provide for consensus-oriented rules for future negotiations, Switzerland cast an abstaining vote in the UN General Assembly's disarmament committee.