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Middle East convening the conference. The United States announced after the Review Conference that the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom, along with the UN Secretary General, will co-sponsor the meeting and determine a country to host it and an individual to help organize it. The document also called for India, Pakistan and Israel, all holding nuclear weapons but not nonproliferation treaty members, to join the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT). It also emphasized the need for countries to respect treaty guidelines for keeping their nuclear programs open to international inspection and suffering the consequences if they do not. With respect to international inspection the document called for the universal adoption of the
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funding of technical cooperation". Amano also said that "IAEA safeguards are a fundamental pillar of the nuclear non-proliferation regime" and that the Agency was working to "resolve important safeguards implementation issues in three states". Amano said the IAEA General Conference had adopted resolutions in recent years on the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East and Israeli nuclear capabilities, and that he would take these issues up as well.
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suffer from the after-effects of radiation even today 60 years later." Fukuyama also said "that all Parties to the Treaty must work to bridge the differences in their respective positions and find common ground for collaboration in the spirit of multilateralism, in order to pave the way for a "world without nuclear weapons" while also maintaining "atoms for peace."
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Ahmadinejad called for guarantees against the use of nuclear weapons, a halt to research of nuclear weapons, a halt to cooperation with states operating outside of the treaty, the establishment of a nuclear free zone in the Middle East, the dismantling of nuclear weapons in Europe, and a legally binding framework for nuclear disarmament.
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plans on nonproliferation, disarmament, and peaceful uses of nuclear energy. There are specific and measurable actions in the final document that states are asked to take in support of these three pillars of the NPT, which could serve as a scorecard for measuring progress and ensuring there would be accountability at future meetings.
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for a negotiated nuclear weapons convention failed, but the disarmament action plan included a timeline whereby the nuclear weapon states should report on their disarmament activities at the 2014 NPT Preparatory Committee meeting. They were also encouraged to develop a standard reporting form as a confidence building measure.
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The outcome document also reiterates that all states have to abide by international humanitarian law at all times, while expressing concern at the "catastrophic humanitarian consequences" any nuclear weapon detonation would entail. This language gave rise, in subsequent conferences of the NPT, to the
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In the disarmament section, for the first time, a world free of nuclear weapons was articulated as the goal of nuclear disarmament. Acknowledged nuclear weapon states also committed themselves to continuing to work together to accelerate concrete progress on disarmament. Efforts to include a timeline
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The Conference closed on 28 May and until the last minute was hard to know if it would have a positive outcome, as the risk of blocking persisted. Consensus was achieved during the afternoon that day, when the plenary was finally gathered and Ambassador Cabactulan got the approval for his proposal of
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The 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference. There were 2 objectives; (1) to review the Treaty's operation and (2) to decide on its extension. Although the review did not reach a consensus review of the Treaty's implementation, states parties adopted without a vote a package of three decisions and a
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On 4 May 2010 Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, announced Iran's agreement in principle to Brazilian mediation to revive a U.N.-brokered nuclear fuel swap deal with world powers. On 17 May, the Foreign Ministers of Brazil, Turkey issued a statement agreeing to exchange its enriched uranium for
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Japan State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Japan Tetsure Fukuyama said "the citizens of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki are watching with very keen eyes what will come out of this Conference. It was as few as two atomic bombs that claimed the lives of more than 200 thousand civilians, and left many to
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The document contained a recommitment of nations to the basic bargain of the NPT i.e. that "Countries with nuclear weapons will move towards disarmament, countries without nuclear weapons will not acquire them, and all countries can access peaceful nuclear energy." It also contained specific action
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Amano noted that "it is expected that between 10 and 25 new countries will bring their first nuclear power plants online by 2030" since it is for each sovereign State to decide whether or not to use nuclear power, and said that "more efforts are needed to achieve sufficient, assured and predictable
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Conferences to review the operation of the Treaty have been held at five-year intervals since the Treaty went into effect in 1970. Each conference has sought to find agreement on a final declaration that would assess the implementation of the Treaty's provisions and make recommendations on measures
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The final document called for a 2012 conference of all Middle Eastern states to move forward on a 1995 proposal for a nuclear-free Mideast and for the United Nations secretary general, along with the United States, Russia and Britain, to appoint a facilitator and consult with the countries of the
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The nonproliferation section covered a range of issues such as: ensuring compliance, strengthening safeguards, encouraging the adoption of the Additional Protocol, supporting the IAEA, strengthening export controls, emphasizing the need for the physical protection of nuclear materials, stopping
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United States U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a statement that called for NPT Parties to "focus on promoting practical solutions, not pursuing unrealistic agendas, adding that "Now is the time to build consensus, not to block it." She accused Iran of "whatever it can to divert
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Iran President Ahmadinejad of Iran, criticized and charged Washington with leading a skewed international system that seeks to deny peaceful nuclear power to developing nations while allowing allies such as Israel to stockpile atomic arms and put forward a proposal for nuclear disarmament.
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The 2000 Review Conference. States parties successfully concluded their agreement on a Final Document that assessed past performance of the treaty and on a number of key issues relating to nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, nuclear safety and the peaceful uses of nuclear
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attention away from its own record and to attempt to evade accountability," and said Iran "has defied the UN Security Council and the IAEA, and placed the future of the nonproliferation regime in jeopardy." Clinton also touted the U.S. record on nuclear disarmament, citing the
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resolution. The decisions consisted of (1) elements for a strengthened review process for the Treaty, (2) principles and objectives for nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, and (3) the indefinite extension of the Treaty. The resolution dealt with the Middle East.
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and implementation of the 1995 NPT resolution calling for a Middle East zone free of all weapons of mass destruction. However, with the impact of the review in 2005, Montenegro has successfully joined the treaty in 2006.
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On 3 May 2010, the U.S. Defense Department released aggregate stockpile numbers for 1962–2009 which brought up to date a 1994 release by the U.S. Department of Energy. The release led the
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2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Statement by H.E. Mr. Tetsuro Fukuyama, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Japan
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illicit trafficking, and preventing nuclear terrorism, etc. The nonproliferation action plan also enabled a scorecard exercise to see how well states perform on the stated actions.
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Non-Aligned Movement: Statement by Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia on behalf of the NAM States Party to the Non-proliferation of nuclear weapons Treaty
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Treaty and reductions in the U.S. nuclear weapon stockpile. She announced that the Obama Administration would seek Senate approval of the Protocols to the
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to further strengthen it. The treaty's last Review Conference in 2005, ended without a consensus document primarily because of disputes related to the
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used the opening of the conference to note that "sixty five years later, the world still lives under the nuclear shadow".
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Address to the 2010 Review Conference of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
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U.S. Department of Energy: Declassification of Certain Characteristics of the United States Nuclear Weapon Stockpile
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Statement to 2010 Review Conference of Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)
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The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), which entered into force in 1970, recognizes five countries as
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The 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)
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NPT Review Conferences have been held every five years, beginning in 1975, and most recently in 2015.
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Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Oslo conference and the Mexican follow-up, 11 March 2013
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The 2005 and 2015 Review Conferences. States parties failed to reach agreement on any final document.
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in New York City from 3 to 28 May 2010. The President of the Review Conference is Ambassador
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Federation of American Scientists: United States Discloses Size of Nuclear Weapons Stockpile
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The Review Conference considered a number of issues, including: universality of the Treaty;
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of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 3–29 May 2010.
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U.S. Department of Defense: Increasing Transparency in the US Nuclear Weapons Stockpile
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Indonesia Indonesia's Foreign Minister, R. M. Marty N. Natalegawa spoke on behalf of
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to estimate the United States as having 9,613 total assembled nuclear warheads.
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened his speech by discussing the U.S.
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participating in the Review Conference. In addition to Secretary Clinton,
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Three major events occurred prior to the 2010 NPT Review Conference:
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Day 1 at the NPT: Transparency, bluster, and practical commitments
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The final document supported the early entry into force of the
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High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
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Index

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
United Nations Headquarters
Libran N. Cabactulan
Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon
nuclear disarmament
nuclear non-proliferation
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
nuclear-weapon states
nuclear program of Iran
Israel's nuclear program
New START
Prague
Barack Obama
Dmitry Medvedev
2010 Nuclear Security Summit
conference on disarmament and non-proliferation
head of government
Foreign Ministers
Baroness Ashton
High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
European Union
Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon
IAEA
Yukiya Amano
disarmament
atomic bombing of Hiroshima
Non-Aligned Movement
new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty

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