VIENNA, June 13 (Xinhua) -- China is committed to taking the path of peaceful development and advocates for complete prohibition and thorough destruction of the nuclear weapons, China's Vice Foreign Minister Li Baodong said here on Monday.
In the 20-year anniversary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty (CTBT) in UN headquarter in Vienna, Li said China has made commitment on no-first-use of nuclear weapons and has unconditionally undertaken not to use or threat to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear-weapon states and nuclear free-zones.
"China is committed to taking the path of peaceful development and advocates for complete prohibition and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons," Li stressed.
As one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, China has always been promoting the peaceful use of the nuclear energy, voting to support the non-proliferation regime, playing a key role in resolving the Iranian nuclear issue and other nuclear related issues in the past years.
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