With the nuclear threat at its most acute in decades, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which on Friday won the Nobel Peace Prize, is urgently pressing to consign the bomb to history. None of the nine countries that possess nuclear weapons – the United States, Russia, Britain, China, France, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel – took part in the negotiations. This body met in Geneva in February, May and August 2016, and issued a report recommending the negotiation of a nuclear ban treaty. SupportersA number of prominent individuals have lent their support to the campaign, including Nobel Peace Prize laureates Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama and Jody Williams, the musician Herbie Hancock, the cricketer Ian Chappell, the actors Martin Sheen and Michael Douglas, and the artist Yoko Ono. In November 2012, former UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, praised ICAN and its partners “for working with such commitment and creativity in pursuit of our shared goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world.”2017 Nobel Peace PrizeICAN was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 06, 2017 14:48 UTC