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class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eThe Vatican on Friday welcomed Nobel peace laureates, United Nations, NATO officials, and diplomats from countries with the bomb to a Vatican conference aimed at galvanising support for a global shift from the Cold War-era policy of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eThe Vatican on Friday welcomed Nobel peace laureates, United Nations, NATO officials, and diplomats from countries with the bomb to a Vatican conference aimed at galvanising support for a global shift from the Cold War-era policy of nuclear deterrence to one of complete nuclear disarmament.\u003cbr/\u003e              Among those speaking at the two-day meeting were Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the advocacy group that won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for its instrumental role in getting the treaty passed.\u003cbr/\u003e              The conference comes amid mounting tensions on the Korean peninsula and heated rhetoric between Washington and Pyongyang over the North's nuclear ambitions. \u003cbr/\u003e              But organiser Cardinal Peter Turkson told the audience Friday that the gathering was planned well before President Donald Trump began his Asia trip, where the Korean nuclear threat has been at the top of his agenda.\u003cbr/\u003e              Drawing laughs from the largely secular audience, Turkson said it was \"divine providence\" that the conference and US president's trip coincided.\u003cbr/\u003e              The conference is the first major international gathering since 122 countries approved the new UN treaty in July calling for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons. \u003cbr/\u003e              Pope Francis fully endorsed the new UN treaty, saying it filled an important legal gap in international law. \u003cbr/\u003e              However, none of the nuclear powers and no NATO members signed on, arguing that the treaty's lofty ideals were unrealistic given the rapid expansion of North Korea's nuclear weapons program.\u003cbr/\u003e              But Fihn said the treaty will have an impact even on those nuclear states that refused to participate, arguing that previous treaties banning chemical and biological weapons were a crucial first step in making such arsenals illegal, and put pressure on countries that had the weapons to disarm.\u003cbr/\u003e              UN high representative for disarmament affairs Izumi Nakamitsu added that disarmament would \"create breathing space for trying to find political solutions.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              Meanwhile Francois Bugnion of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned that if nuclear weapons were to be used, the effects would be devastating for humanity and future generations.\u003cbr/\u003e              Bugnion, an independent consultant in international humanitarian law and humanitarian action for the ICRC, also drew attention to the \"real impossibility of providing adequate medical assistance to the victims\" of nuclear warfare.  \u003cbr/\u003e              At the conference, the United States was represented at the conference by its deputy ambassador to the Holy See, Luis Bono, while Russia sent an ambassador and a top nuclear expert, Alexei Arbatov. \u003cbr/\u003e              China and North Korea were invited, but organisers said they didn't attend. \u003cbr/\u003e              Neither has diplomatic relations with the Holy See.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Vatican - 10 November 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Audience taking seats at conference \u003cbr/\u003e              2. Tilt down of conference banner depicting Pope Francis and reading (English): \"Perspectives for a world free from nuclear from Nuclear weapons and for integral disarmament\"\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Cutaway of audience\u003cbr/\u003e              4. SOUNDBITE (English) Cardinal Peter Turkson, chief of the Vatican dicastery for promoting human development: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"We hope for a very candid conversation about how to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons. This conversation is urgently needed, given the current tensions around the world. And by the way, let us be clear, when we have planned this conference we did not know that (US) president (Donald) Trump was going to visit the Far East. Just happens to be a happy coincidence, but we did not plan it in view of his visit. We planned it way before he planned his visit, so if you believe in divine providence that probably is part of it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Audience applauding\u003cbr/\u003e              6. SOUNDBITE (English) Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN): \u003cbr/\u003e              \"We have a treaty that prohibits nuclear weapons. And that treaty states are now signing and ratifying. That provides a path toward elimination. Whether or not nuclear arms states sign this treaty, it is going to have an impact on them. We see from other treaties, the land mines treaty, the cluster munitions convention, that states outside the treaty their policies still get impacted. If international law says its prohibited, its going to make it a lot harder for them to justify their decisions to modernise, to invest in new types of weapons. So we are seeing a lot of possibilities to use this treaty to pressure nuclear arms states to disarm.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              7. Fihn surrounded by journalists\u003cbr/\u003e              8. SOUNDBITE (English) Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN): \u003cbr/\u003e              \"We built these weapons, we can take them apart. We have to stop letting these weapons control us. We control them. We have given up weapons before: chemical weapons, biological weapons, land mines, cluster munitions. Nuclear weapons are no longer an exception to international law, to norms, to sanity and reason.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              9. Francois Bugnion, independent consultant for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), surrounded by journalists \u003cbr/\u003e              10. SOUNDBITE (English) Francois Bugnion, independent consultant in international humanitarian law and humanitarian action for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC): \u003cbr/\u003e              \"We can easily imagine what the consequences of any nuclear war would be, whether it would affect Korea, whether it would affect other countries. We know that the consequences can not be limited to a single country, that the whole world will be affected by radiation, by fallout. We also are conscious of the real impossibility of providing adequate medical assistance to the victims in case of use of nuclear weapons. The consequences would be devastating.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              11. United Nations high representative for disarmament affairs Izumi Nakamitsu, surrounded by journalists \u003cbr/\u003e              12. SOUNDBITE (English) Izumi Nakamitsu, UN high representative for disarmament affairs: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"I mentioned this morning that because the tension is rising, because it is a world with a lot of danger, practical dangers, we think that disarmament has to be given much more of an attention. We believe that disarmament, arms control, and non proliferation dialogues and discussions, in fact create breathing space for trying to find political solutions. So we are not giving up at all on disarmament, quite the contrary. Because the situation is very difficult, we think that disarmament discussion are more important.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              13. Cutaway of journalists \u003cbr/\u003e              14. 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