View of Sydney, Australia. File photoUN, Mar 26 Australia, within the framework of the AUKUS alliance (Australia, Great Britain, USA), will not seek to acquire nuclear weapons, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said at a meeting of the UN Security Council.
&# 34;The AUKUS initiative involves the provision of nuclear submarines equipped with conventional weapons to Australia. It does not include submarines equipped with nuclear weapons,” said Thomas-Greenfield.
According to her, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) does not prohibit naval nuclear propulsion. «Australia does not seek and will not strive to acquire nuclear weapons in accordance with its obligations under the NPT as a non-nuclear state,» she added. , said Kaczynski