在过去二十年里，我们目睹了一些国家对大规模毁灭性武器领域裁军的政治承诺的减退。这体现在：大规模毁灭性武器在它们的安全理论中持续存在；不断使相关技术现代化，扩大拥有国和非拥有国之间的信任赤字；以及无视全球对大规模毁灭性武器的人道主义和滥杀滥伤影响的关切。
In the past two decades, we have witnessed a deterioration in the political commitment to disarmament in the area of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) by a number of States. That is evident in the persistent presence of WMDs in their security doctrines and the continued modernization of related technology, widening the trust deficit between possessor and non-possessor States as well as disregarding the global concern over the humanitarian and indiscriminate impacts of WMDs.