Minister of Foreign Affairs Attends 3rd Ministerial Meeting of the Stockholm Initiative on Nuclear Disarmament and the Non-Proliferation Treaty

Minister of Foreign Affairs Kang, Kyung-wha virtually attended the “Third Ministerial Meeting of the Stockholm Initiative on Nuclear Disarmament and the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)” on January 6, the first ministerial multilateral meeting in the area of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation in 2021. The meeting brought together 16 non-nuclear countries including Korea to discuss ways to further promote nuclear disarmament and strengthen the NPT regime ahead of the Review Conference of the NPT in August marking the 50th anniversary of the Treaty’s entry into force. In her leading remarks, Foreign Minister Kang underscored the need for the international community to shore up the nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime based on the NPT to achieve the goal of “a world free of nuclear weapons,” and emphasized the Korean government’s commitment to contribute in this regard.