OSLO: Breaking with tradition, nearly all ambassadors of the world’s nuclear powers will not attend this year’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony which honours efforts to ban atomic weapons, the Nobel Institute said on Thursday. “They clearly received instructions to express their reservations towards International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and the global treaty to ban weapons of mass destruction,” the head of the Nobel Institute Olav Njolstad said. The treaty remains nonetheless largely symbolic as none of the nuclear powers has agreed to sign it. ICAN will formally receive its prize at a lavish ceremony in Oslo on December 10. Noting that the treaty comes at a time of increased danger of nuclear proliferation, the US embassy confirmed its lower level of participation.

Source: Pakistan Today November 30, 2017 17:37 UTC