Prior to this, Moscow vetoed a draft resolution between the United States and Japan that banned the placement of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in space. And it did so, in particular, because the Security Council did not include in the text of the document its amendment calling for the permanent prevention of the placement in outer space of any weapons, not just weapons of mass destruction.
“I just returned from a trip to Japan, where I had the honor of visiting Nagasaki, the last site of an atomic bomb,” Thomas-Greenfield said after Russia blocked the draft resolution.
According to her, this city will always be a reminder of the responsibility to prevent the scourge of war and to ensure that no place on Earth “will again experience the horror of nuclear weapons.”
“Unfortunately, today Russia has abandoned this responsibility,” the American added.
Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, immediately asked him who had carried out this nuclear bombing. He recalled that Japan in UN Security Council meetings never named the country that bombed it.
“It is as if the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki really came from outer space and emerged from nowhere,” the Russian diplomat ironically noted.
