Although the topic may not have attracted large media coverage, small milestones were reached toward reducing nuclear weapons globally. Notably, Kyrgyzstan became the 99th country to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). PassBlue talked to two representatives from ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, during the six-hour UN commemoration. At the commemoration — meant to raise public awareness and foster more global dialogue on disarmament — only three states with nuclear weapons spoke: China, India and Pakistan. Ghana President John Dramani Mahama, the African Union Champion for African Financial Institutions, said that it was time to establish AU financial institutions.