On November 10-11, the Vatican will host a nuclear disarmament summit initiated by Pope Francis. In addition to representatives of the UN and NATO, it will be attended by representatives of the United States, Russia and South Korea - states directly interested in resolving the North Korean crisis. In addition to them, the participating countries that have signed the UN Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, as well as, personally, the Nobel Peace Prize laureates, have been invited. According to Vatican Radio, Pope Francis will personally open the forum. On behalf of the Vatican, Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Prefect of the Dicasteria for Integral Human Development Cardinal Peter Tarkson will serve on the forum. According to the Vatican, today's nuclear safety should be guaranteed not by the presence of parity nuclear arsenals, but by the confidence of the international community that no one will be able to use them. The Pontifical Delegate for Nuclear Disarmament, Archbishop Silvano Tomazzo, in an interview with Italian La Stampa, explained that “preparations for this initiative began long before it was reported in the headlines, since it is clear that today we are faced with a real threat of the use of an atomic bomb accidentally, as a result of the adoption a deliberate decision, or because the persons sitting in the command post are mentally unstable. '
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