Five-nation pact signers uphold treaty

Countries to work toward inherent goals of nuclear nonproliferation agreement

Diplomats from the five major nuclear-weapon states wrapped up a two-day conference in Beijing on Thursday, vowing to jointly uphold the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons amid challenges to international security.

Stressing that the treaty is the cornerstone of global nuclear nonproliferation, China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States promised to comprehensively implement the treaty and promote its universality to gradually realize the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons, according to a Foreign Ministry news release.