The signing of the treaty took place in New York at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly meeting.
“As a signatory to this historic treaty, we wanted to demonstrate unequivocally our aspiration to have a world without nuclear weapons,” Malielegaoi told the UN General Assembly in his address.
“The conventional narrative that the possession of nuclear weapons will act as deterrent to make the world a safer place to live, is not borne out by the current realities otherwise the developments in the Korean peninsula would not have happened at all,” he added.
