Madam President,

At the outset, I would like to congratulate H.E. Amb. Fancy Chepkemoi Too on your assuming the rotating President of the Conference on Disarmament(CD), and thank you for introducing your working plan. The Chinese delegation will fully support Kenya’s presidency. China would also like to take this opportunity to appreciate Kazakhstan for its hard work during its presidency.

The CD session has been halfway through, and the discussion of the five subsidiary bodies have also been coming to an end. China welcomes the progress achieved by the subsidiary bodies. In general, members states have had substantive and interactive discussions on a variety of topics. Although there are still many differences, we have enhanced mutual understanding on each other’s positions, which will lay a good foundation for further consensus. 

From this week, the five subsidiary bodies will successively start to negotiate their reports. We hope that the coordinators could learn from experience of previous CD sessions, adopt a professional, objective and pragmatic attitude, guide member states to respect each other's concerns, actively seek the least common denominator, and reach consensus on comprehensive and pragmatic reports. China will participate in the negotiations in a constructive manner.

Madam President,

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, as well as 80th anniversary of the founding of the UN. The world today is characterized with interweaving of chaos and turmoil, overlaping of emerging and traditional security challenges. How to achieve the vision of “saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war” enshrined in the preamble of the UN Charter, promote common security of all countries, and to eliminate the motivation of war and prevent the risks of arms race, are the prominent issues facing the international community. 

In this context, China and Russian Federation issued a Joint Statement on Global Strategic Stability in Moscow on May 8th 2025, which elaborates the principles and propositions of our two countries on maintaining global strategic stability and promoting international security and disarmament. Just now, H.E. Amb. Gennady Gatilov has introduced the main content of the Joint Statement. I would like to take this opportunity to highlight four points.

Firstly, developing constructive relations between major powers is an important condition for maintaining global strategic stability. Nuclear-weapon States, which bear special responsibility for international security and global strategic stability, should respect each other’s interests of sovereignty, security and development, abandon Cold War mentality and zero-sum games, and refrain from actions that generate strategic risks. If a certain country intently undermines the core interests of other countries for geopolitical purpose, no matter how many Guardrails are put in place, it is impossible to prevent the bilateral strategic security relationship from going off track and out of control.

Secondly, adhering to true multilateralism is an inherent part of maintaining global strategic stability. All states should join hands to safeguard the international system with the UN at its core, the international order underpinned by international law and the basic norms governing international relations based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter. The international community should firmly resist unilateral hegemonic practice such as wantonly withdrawing from treaties and organizations, oppose “house rules” of small cliques and blocks, maintain the bilateral and multilateral arms control system, and promote and improve international security and arms control governance

Thirdly, promoting common security is the right pathway to maintain global strategic stability. Seeking strategic advantages in both offensive and defensive, and pursuing absolute security at the expense of other countries’ security, will only exacerbate the security dilemma. The United States announced the so-called "Golden Dome" program, which planst to expand the U.S. arsenal of means for combat operations in outer space, including R&D and deployment of orbital interception systems. That gives the project a strong offensive nature and violates the principle of peaceful use in the Outer Space Treaty. The project will heighten the risk of turning the space into a war zone and creating a space arms race, and shake the international security and arms control system. China is gravely concerned.

Fourthly, promoting nuclear disarmament based on the principle of "undiminished security for all" is the legitimate logic for maintaining global strategic stability. “The adoption of disarmament measures should take place in such an equitable and balanced manner as to ensure the right of each State to security and to ensure that no individual State or group of States may obtain advantages over others at any stage.” A certain country possessing the largest and most advanced nuclear arsenal, invests heavily in upgrading its “nuclear triad”, advances forward deployment of strategic forces, and strengthens nuclear alliance to containing other countries, which constitutes the primary source of the risks of nuclear arms race and nuclear conflicts in the current world. Any attempt to shift the responsibility of nuclear disarmament, by hyping up the nuclear threats of other countries, will not succeed.

Many contents of the Joint Statement are closely relevant to the agenda of the CD. We are ready to work with other members states to implement the Joint Statement, promote substantive progress of the CD, and make unremitting efforts to maintain global strategic stability, and enhance world peace and security.

Thank you, Madam President.