Australia yet to sign up to treaty banning nuclear weapons but will attend UN meeting as observer
Exclusive: Anthony Albanese committed Labor to signing the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons while in opposition
Australia will attend - as an observer - a UN meeting of countries that have outlawed nuclear weapons; parties to a treaty Anthony Albanese championed in opposition and committed Labor to ratifying in government.
Government backbencher Susan Templeman's attendance at the meeting in Vienna on Monday comes as a group of 55 former Australian ambassadors and high commissioners have written an open letter to the prime minister urging the government to sign up to the treaty, which outright prohibits the development, testing, production and use of nuclear weapons.
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