Ambassadors from the U.S. and China say they share U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ concerns about the current security environment.
But their comments suggest it would be an uphill struggle to end two decades of stalemate in nuclear negotiations.
Guterres on monday called for a new global effort to get rid of nuclear weapons but said many states still wrongly believe they make the world safer.
He says there are currently around 150,000 nuclear weapons worldwide and the arms trade is flourishing with 1.5 trillion dollars of spending annually.
