GENEVA, Switzerland, May 19 (UPI) -- The head of the United Nations, speaking at a conference in Switzerland, called for renewed focus to achieve forward progress on disarmament.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the international community must avoid continued paralysis on the issue of disarmament and that the current political climate is promising between the United States and Russia ahead of talks on replacing a nuclear arms control treaty, the United Nations reported.
Ban addressed the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on Tuesday and said that global interdependency requires a multilateral approach to achieve progress on disarmament.
"We live in an age of interdependence … (where) cooperation replaces confrontation, where creativity replaces stalemate," Ban said, according to the United Nations.
Ban called for a "global partnership that can weave ... disparate threads into comprehensive political agreements," according to a transcript of the secretary-general's remarks.
