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By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI asked world
leaders to work calmly and seriously to control the spread of nuclear
weapons “in the prospect of their complete elimination from the
planet.”
At the end of his weekly general audience May 5, the pope made his appeal
to participants at the U.N. Review Con-ference of Par-ties to the Treaty
on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, being held in New York May
3-28.
Designed to promote nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and an equitable
development of peaceful nuclear energy, the treaty can succeed only if
nations respect the commitments they made in signing it, the pope said.
“Peace, in fact, rests on trust and on respect for the obligations
assumed and not only on a balance of forces,” he said. “In
that spirit, I en-courage the initiatives aimed at progressive disarmament
and the creation of zones free from nuclear arms in the prospect of their
complete elimination from the planet.”
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