{"id":105349,"date":"2017-08-04T12:13:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T16:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/71\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=105349"},"modified":"2017-08-23T18:57:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T22:57:35","slug":"international-day-against-nuclear-tests","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/71\/event-latest\/international-day-against-nuclear-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day against Nuclear Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over the past seventy years, nuclear weapons have been tested on more than 2,000 occasions – in the atmosphere, underground and underwater. The toll on human life, and consequent death and destruction, as well as environmental contamination through radiation has been staggering. Decades after nuclear tests, many affected territories around the world remain hazardous and unfit for human habitation, agriculture or economic development.<\/p>\n

Convinced that every effort should be made to end nuclear tests, the 64th session of the Â鶹APP General Assembly declared 29 August as the International Day against Nuclear Tests through the unanimous adoption of its resolution 64\/35<\/a> on 2 December 2009.<\/p>\n

In keeping with this commitment, the President of the General Assembly, H.E. Peter Thomson, will convene a half-day meeting to mark the observance of this International Day, on 30 August at the UN Headquarters’ Trusteeship Council, New York.<\/p>\n

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