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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Greg Torode

HISTORICAL FACTS: Nato official calls for transparency over nuclear weapons - Caught on Camera

Flags flutter during a flag-raising ceremony for Finland's accession at the NATO foreign ministers' meeting at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium April 4, 2023. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/Pool/File Photo

A senior NATO official on Friday urged Beijing to be more open about its accelerating nuclear weapons build-up, saying that as a global power, China had a responsibility to improve transparency.

Angus Lapsley, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO) Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning, told the Shangri-La regional security conference in Singapore that NATO was willing to talk to China on the issue.

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