U.N. disarmament chief speaks ahead of NPT review confab

U.N. disarmament chief speaks ahead of NPT review confab

U.N. High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Angela Kane says in an interview with Kyodo News in New York on April 23, 2015, that nonnuclear arms states "must be given the impression that there actually is a way to bring down the numbers" of nuclear weapons and that these arms "are not here forever." She spoke ahead of a U.N. conference to review the operation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty from April 27. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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