In an exclusive interview with CGTN, Rafael Grossi says his International Atomic Energy Agency is “concerned about the stability of the nuclear nonproliferation regime,” asking whether nuclear weapons are effective as “the ultimate guarantor of peace”.
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00:00We are concerned about the stability of the nuclear non-proliferation regime.
00:07People see in nuclear weapons the ultimate guarantor of peace.
00:14It's debatable whether that is the case or not.
00:18We have been working as a global community in a system which is based on nuclear deterrence,
00:27basically with a limited number of countries.
00:30In the case of Europe that you are mentioning,
00:33one has to make a distinction between developing domestic nuclear weapons
00:37and or having the benefit of other countries' nuclear weapons for protection.
00:44This, I would say, is not new.
00:47Remember that in Europe there are American nuclear weapons
00:51that have been stationed for many, many years.
00:54Here the debate is more about whose nuclear weapons should be providing this protection.
01:03Should they be from America or from other countries?
01:08In any case, for the IAEA it is very important in these times of uncertainty
01:13and in these times of high tensions not to lose the objective
01:19of limiting the number of countries with nuclear weapons.