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Tuesday 9 augusT 2022
U.N. chief urges nuke powers to abide by no-first-use pledge

TOKYO (AP) — United Na- policy, which acknowledg-
tions Secretary-General es Beijing’s view that it has
Antonio Guterres on Mon- sovereignty over Taiwan,
day urged countries with but considers Taiwan’s sta-
nuclear weapons to stick tus as unsettled.
to their no-first-use com- “We all want that resolution
mitment of their atomic to correspond to a peace-
arsenals, warning that the ful environment,” he said,
nuclear arms race has re- calling for “common sense
turned amid growing inter- and then restraint, allowing
national tension. for de-escalation.”
“This is the moment … to ask Earlier Monday, Guterres
the nuclear-armed coun- met with Japanese Foreign
tries to commit to the prin- Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi
ciple of non-first-use and to and shared “serious con-
commit to not use and not cern about the tense situa-
threaten the non-nuclear tion in the region and con-
countries,” Guterres said at curred on the importance
a news conference in To- of de-escalating the ten-
kyo, two days after he visit- sion,” the ministry said in a
ed Hiroshima to commem- statement.
orate victims of the Aug. 6, At a time when geopoliti-
1945, atomic bombing. cal tensions are rising and
“I think that nobody, no- the nuclear threat is back in
body can accept the idea Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres delivers a speech at the Japan focus, Japan’s strong and
National Press Club in Tokyo, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022.
that a new nuclear war Associated Press consistent voice on peace
would happen. is more important than
This will be the destruction plant. When asked about bombs and huge invest- community,” he said. ever, Guterres said, urg-
of the planet,” Guterres the attack, Guterres said, ment going into modern- He said he will be also go- ing Japan to use its unique
said. “What is clear is if no- “Any attack to a nuclear ization of atomic arsenals. ing to Mongolia and South position as the world’s only
body uses for the first time plant is a suicidal thing.” “So this is the time to say: Korea to discuss ways to country to have suffered
then there will be no nucle- He said he fully supports the Stop it.” address North Korea’s nu- atomic attacks to act as “a
ar war.” International Atomic En- Guterres said that the bil- clear development. bridge-builder and peace-
Fears of a third atomic ergy Agency in their effort lions of dollars being used Asked about China’s on- maker to strengthen global
bombing have been on the to stabilize the plant and in the arms race should be going military exercises cooperation and trust and
rise amid Russia’s threats of have access to the facility spent on other pressing is- surrounding Taiwan in re- solidarity.”
a nuclear attack since its to exercise its mandate. sues. sponse to U.S. House Speak- Guterres said he is count-
war on Ukraine began in Guterres said that after de- “The billions that are be- er Nancy Pelosi’s visit last ing on Japan’s potential
February. cades of nuclear disarma- ing used in this arms race week to the self-governing to take leadership on the
On Thursday, Moscow ment efforts, the world is need to be used to fight- island, Guterres said the global fight against climate
shelled the Ukrainian city of now “moving backwards,” ing climate change, fight- U.N. abides by the general change, and specifically
Zaporizhzhia, which holds noting that the world al- ing poverty, addressing the assembly resolution sup- urged Tokyo to stop fund-
Europe’s largest nuclear ready has 13,000 nuclear needs of the international porting the “One China” ing coal plants.q

Mexico to send aquatic drone into shaft with trapped miners

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexi- Laura Velázquez, national putting them at risk. information when he visited tions to determine those re-
co will attempt to send an Civil Defense coordinator, She also said that 25 pumps the site. sponsible for the accident.
aquatic drone into a col- said Monday that images were working to remove “I appreciate that he has Such small mines are often
lapsed coal mine where 10 from the drone could help water from the flooded come to take a photo the result of locals who get
miners have been trapped authorities decide whether shafts. Water that was once with my pain, the pain of concessions and then con-
since last week. to send in divers without 111 feet (34 meters) deep my family and the pain of tract teams of miners. Ex-
was now between 55 and everyone of us here,” said perts say they seldom have
78 feet (17 and 26 meters) Lucía Rodríguez, mother of the safety plans and equip-
deep. one of the miners, in a vid- ment necessary to reduce
The mine in Sabinas, Coa- eo circulated on social me- the risk of accidents.
huila about 70 miles south- dia. “I hope that his pho- In June and July of 2021,
west of Eagle Pass, Texas, tographs serve his policy cave-ins at two Coahuila
collapsed last Wednesday well.” mines claimed the lives of
with 15 miners inside. Five The president said that as nine miners.
managed to escape with a public servant you have Mexico’s worst mining ac-
injuries. Authorities say the to be willing “to always pay cident also occurred in
miners breached a neigh- the tax of humiliation,” but Coahuila on Feb. 19, 2006,
boring space filled with wa- that his conscience is clear when an explosion ripped
ter. There has been no con- because the rescue teams through the Pasta de Con-
tact with the remaining 10. arrived to the site in two chos mine while 73 miners
The miners’ families are hours and have been work- were inside. Eight were res-
desperate and some com- ing day and night to rescue cued with injuries including
Volunteers drain water from a flooded and collapsed coal mine
where miners are trapped in Sabinas, Coahuila state, Mexico, plained Sunday that Presi- the miners.The state and serious burns. The rest died
Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. dent Andrés Manuel López federal prosecutor’s offices and only two of their bod-
Associated Press Obrador gave them little have opened investiga- ies were recovered.q