UN General Assembly
2016

In keeping with that sentiment, we wish to express our concern about the recent nuclear testing by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in breach of decisions made by the United Nations to promote international peace and security. Our Pacific islands and region having experienced the negative effects of nuclear testing, Tonga believes in the need for international standards to control and manage the use of nuclear capabilities and nuclear power for peaceful purposes. For its part, Tonga is at the final stage of its acceptance process of the statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which will formalize its membership of the organization. We hope to deposit our instrument of acceptance with the Agency by the end of this month.