Friday, 15 January 2021, 11:25 am
Celebrations in Aotearoa New Zealand to mark the entry
into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear
Weapons (TPNW) will begin on Thursday 21 January with ICAN
Aotearoa New Zealand’s Wellington and online event, and
continue on Friday 22 January.
The TPNW bans the
development, testing, production, manufacture, possession,
transfer, use or threat of use, deployment, installation or
stationing of nuclear weapons and other nuclear explosive
devices, as well as assistance, encouragement or inducement
of any of these prohibited activities. It provides a pathway
for nuclear-armed states to join and to destroy their
nuclear weapons in a time-bound, verifiable and irreversible