Failure at NPT confab could boost momentum for outlawing nukes: envoy

Failure at NPT confab could boost momentum for outlawing nukes: envoy

Jorge Lomonaco, Mexico's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News at the U.N. Headquarters in New York on April 29, 2015, on the sidelines of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference. Lomonaco said states that are frustrated with a slow pace of negotiations on eliminating nuclear weapons under the nonproliferation regime may press for outlawing the destructive weapons through a convention. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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