Annually, the U.S. spends astronomical amount of money amounting to more than US$ 700 billion on the development of ultra-supersonic weapons, long-range precision guided armaments, ICBM of a new generation, nuclear strategic bombers, all of which are bound to be used first against the DPRK in the future Korean war.

Our troops successfully completed missionsin Darfur and Abyei.They paid the ultimate sacrifice in the most isolated mission areas, facing active intercommunal clashes,unconventional warfare methods, border disputes, and unabated administrative obstructions.

We will work with all our partners to enhance thecapacity of member states to address issues related to arms control and disarmament,by preventing the diversion of conventional arms to the illicit market.

The silencing of guns therefore goes beyond addressing conventional warfare but also in addressing new emerging threats of our century which includes challenges of extremism and international terrorism cyber crime asymmetric warfare prorification of non-conventional weapons and organized crime as an international community we need to continue to work towards or to work together to address the root cause of these global threat through various national regional and global mechanisms