Egyptian envoy seeks mandate to negotiate banning nukes

Ambassador Hisham Badr, who heads the Egyptian delegation for the U.N. review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, gives an interview with Kyodo News in New York on May 13, 2015. He stressed the need for outlawing nuclear weapons as a step toward eliminating them and urged participants in the meeting to produce an outcome document calling for a negotiation process that is based on a legal framework. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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