The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, ICAN and International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC have urged ECOWAS member states to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, TPNW.
ICAN representative, Kolade Fadahunsi made the call at an interactive session on the UN treaty at the ongoing session of the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja.
According to Fadahunsi, the TPNW of 2017 is the first globally applicable multilateral agreement to prohibit nuclear weapons comprehensively.
It prohibits nations from developing, testing, producing, manufacturing, transferring, possessing, stockpiling, using or threatening to use nuclear weapons, or allowing nuclear weapons to be stationed on their territory. It also prohibits them from assisting, encouraging or inducing anyone to engage in any of these activities.
The Legal Coordinator, ICRC Rochus Peyer said that member states, through the signing would add their voices against nuclear weapons that are contrary to law, moral and humanitarian concerns.
