{"id":179615,"date":"2017-07-07T23:53:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T18:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=179615"},"modified":"2017-07-09T00:29:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T18:59:45","slug":"122-countries-including-sri-lanka-approve-first-un-treaty-banning-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/122-countries-including-sri-lanka-approve-first-un-treaty-banning-nuclear-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"122 Countries Including Sri Lanka Approve First UN Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>122 countries including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Sri+Lanka\">Sri Lanka<\/a> approved the first-ever treaty to ban <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=nuclear+weapons\">nuclear weapons<\/a> at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Friday<\/p>\n<p>UN meeting was boycotted by\u00a0nine countries &#8211; the U.S., United Kingdom, Russia, China, France, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel &#8211; known or believed to possess nuclear weapons. 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