NEW YORK -- A Dutch official participating in a United Nations conference here to negotiate a treaty outlawing nuclear weapons remarked that a pact without wide support from nuclear powers would not be viable.
The representative from the Netherlands made the remarks at a March 28 session of the first round of talks on the Nuclear Weapons Convention at U.N. Headquarters, as if to represent the voices of NATO member states. The meeting has been boycotted by the United States and other nuclear powers as well as most NATO members, which rely on the U.S. nuclear umbrella.
Addressing the predominantly pro-treaty audience, the Dutch official opined that any nuclear weapons ban treaty must be consistent with obligations imposed upon NATO members.
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