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The third PrepCom for the 2010 NPT Review Conference was held in New York
from 4-15 May 2009. It was chaired by Ambassador Boniface G. Chidyausiku of Zimbabwe. Links to Acronym's analysis of the PrepCom and key documents can be found below. For links to news coverage and Reaching Critical Will reports, please visit the 2009 NPT Pre Com page
Analysis from Rebecca Johnson
PrepCom Chair's Recommendations (Drafts)
NPT Preparatory Committee Meeting, 2008
The second PrepCom for the 2010 NPT Review Conference was held in Geneva
from 28 April to 9 May 2008. It was chaired by Ambassador Volodymyr Yelchenko
of the Ukraine. Acronym reporting from the PrepCom is available below. For NGO updates
and copies of the main statements and documents from the PrepCom see also
Reaching Critical Will.
2008 NPT Report
Reports and documents from Geneva
- 2008 NPT PrepCom adopts report but not Chair's
factual and balanced Summary, Rebecca Johnson, May 9, 2008
- Chair's Factual Summary, May 9, 2008
- Statement by the Delegations of China, France,
the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland and the United States of America, Delivered by UK Ambassador
John Duncan to the 2008 NPT PrepCom, Geneva, May 9, 2008
- 2008 NPT PrepCom: Debates over, plus safeguards
summary, Rebecca Johnson, 7 May 2008
- 2008 NPT PrepCom: Decisions taken, Security Assurances
debated, Rebecca Johnson, 6 May 2008
- 2008 NPT PrepCom: Calm first week and disarmament
roundup, Rebecca Johnson, 2 May 2008
- Day 3, General Debate ends with concerns about
cold war legacies of tactical nuclear weapons and contamination,
Rebecca Johnson, 30 April 2008
- General debate day 2: Of Common Endeavours and
Double Standards, Rebecca Johnson, 29 April 2008
- 2008 NPT PrepCom gets going smoothly, Report
of Day 1, Rebecca Johnson, 28 April 2008
Webcasts from Geneva
More webcasts from Geneva are available at: http://npt-webcast.info.
Background Reports from Disarmament Diplomacy
- Is the NPT being Overtaken by Events?
by Rebecca Johnson , Disarmament Diplomacy, No.87, Spring 2008
- Back from the Brink? The 2007 NPT PrepCom
Report
by Rebecca Johnson. A detailed analysis of the conduct, dynamics,
and substantive debates at the 2007 NPT PrepCom, Disarmament Diplomacy
No. 85, Summer 2007.
See also: Chair's Summary, reproduced
in full
- Engaging India, Israel and Pakistan
in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime, by Jenny Nielsen, Disarmament
Diplomacy No. 86, Autumn 2007.
- Looking Towards 2010: What does the
Nonproliferation Regime need? Rebecca Johnson, Disarmament Diplomacy
No. 84, Spring 2007.
- Politics and Protection: Why the 2005
NPT Review Conference Failed,
by Rebecca Johnson, Disarmament Diplomacy, Issue No. 80, Autumn
2005.
NPT Preparatory Committee Meeting, 2007
The first PrepCom for the 2010 NPT Review Conference was held in Vienna
from April 30 to May 11, 2007.
Rebecca Johnson, Executive Director of the Acronym Institute for Disarmament
Diplomacy will be participating, and will provide periodic analyses as
necessary via this website. For daily NGO updates and the main statements
and documents from the PrepCom see also Reaching
Critical Will.
Latest Briefings and Updates
- NPT PrepCom finally adopts its report, Rebecca
Johnson, Vienna, Friday May 11, 19.00
- Chair's Paper, May 11, 2007
- Day 9: regional issues and nuclear energy - potted
summaries, Rebecca Johnson, May 11, 2007
- DAY 8: Practical suggestions from the disarmament
debate, Rebecca Johnson, May 10, 2007
- DAY 7: Agenda adopted, NPT PrepCom gets to work,
Rebecca Johnson, May 9, 2007
- NPT Day 6 (Monday May 7): Can the Meeting decide
to understand (and adopt its agenda? Rebecca Johnson, May 7, 2007
- NPT Day 5 - NPT impasse continues: meeting held
hostage by Iran over agenda, Rebecca Johnson, May 4, 2007
- NPT Day 3 - No debate, Rebecca Johnson, May
3, 2007
- 2007 NPT PrepCom opens in Vienna on April 30,
WILL THEY, WON'T THEY? Rebecca Johnson in Vienna, May 1, 2007
- Towards
2010: Promoting Proliferation or Disarmament? Rebecca Johnson, News
in Review, Reaching Critical Will, April 30, 2007
- NATO's nuclear sharing: A cold war anachronism
that undermines the NPT, briefing for the NPT PrepCom, April 30,
2007
Reports from Disarmament Diplomacy
Further documentation and analysis from the Acronym Institute on the
2005 NPT Review Conference and previous PrepComs and Review Conferences
is available at: http://www.acronym.org.uk/npt/index2.htm.
NPT Review Conference 2005: Acronym Special Coverage
The seventh NPT Review Conference was held from May 2 - May 27, 2005
at the UN in New York. See below for Rebecca Johnson's reports and updates
on behalf of Acronym. See the UN website for statements and documents,
at http://www.un.org/events/npt2005/.
Links are also provided for some NGO sites and activities in connection
with the NPT.
Coverage in Disarmament Diplomacy
Updates from New York
Any part of any of the Acronym reports or updates can be circulated,
forwarded or quoted from free of charge, but please credit the author
appropriately.
- Day 26: Spineless NPT Conference Papers Over
Cracks and Ends with a Whimper, Rebecca Johnson, May 27, 2005
- Day 25, or "My Objection is Bigger than your
Objection", Rebecca Johnson, May 26, 2005
- Day 24: NPT RevCon slides from Bad to Desperate,
Rebecca Johnson, May 25, 2005. See also Draft Texts
from the Main Committees, referred to in this update.
- Day 23: closed meetings and bracketed texts,
Rebecca Johnson, May 24, 2005
- Day 22: texts start rolling towards Friday,
Rebecca Johnson, May 23, 2005, including a new addendum concerning a
mystery text that has appeared in the conference rooms.
- Decisions and mysteries on Day 17: Committees
and 'subsidiary bodies' to start on Thursday, Rebecca Johnson, May
18, 2005
- Breaking the Logjam on Day 16: working papers
introduced in plenary, by Rebecca Johnson, May 17, 2005
- Day 10: NPT RevCon Agenda reportedly agreed,
with an asterix, by Rebecca Johnson, May 12, 2005
- "The NPT is not implemented on auto-pilot":
Still no agenda on Day 9, by Rebecca Johnson, May 10, 2005
- "Decisions, resolution and outcomes": Frustration
as agenda is thwarted
NPT Review Conference entering week 2 (May 9), by Rebecca Johnson,
May 7, 2005
- "The miserable failure of the NPT to contain
the nuclear spectre"?
NPT Review Conference Day 3 (May 4), by Rebecca Johnson, May 5,
2005
- Imagine "a nuclear catastrophe in one of our
great cities":
NPT Review Conference Day 1 (May 2), by Rebecca Johnson, May 2,
2005
2005 Review Conference, Draft Texts
(See: Day 24: NPT RevCon slides from Bad to Desperate,
Rebecca Johnson, May 25, 2005.)
Main Committee I (MC.I)
- Draft Report of Main Committee
I, NPT/CONF.2005/MC.I/CRP.2, May 24, 2005
- Chairman's Working Paper of Main Committee
I, NPT/CONF.2005/MC.I/SB/CRP.3, May 24, 2005
- Working Paper of the Chairman of Subsidiary
Body 1, NPT/CONF.2005/MC.I/SB/CRP.4, May 25, 2005
- Item 17 text, concerning universality,
May 25, 2005
Main Committee II (MC.II)
Main Committee III (MC.III)
Selected Documents
- Break the nuclear deadlock, UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Oped on the NPT, May 30, 2005
- IAEA Director-General Dr Mohamed
ElBaradei, Statement to the NPT Review Conference, May 2, 2005
- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan,
Statement to the NPT Review Conference, May 2, 2005
- Multilateral
Approaches to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Expert Group Report submitted
to the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, published
February 22, 2005. Further information about this report is available
at: http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/News/2005/fuelcycle.html
- 'Nonproliferation and Disarmament
Go Hand in Hand', New Agenda Coalition op-ed in the International
Herald Tribune, September 22, 2004
Pre-Conference analysis
Statements and Articles before the Review Conference
- Overview: Canada's Approach to the 2005 NPT Review
Conference, February 24, 2005
- UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament
Affairs Nobuyasu Abe, March 17, 2005
- US Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary
Mark Fitzpatrick, March 17, 2005
- Non-Proliferation
Review Debate in the British Parliament, Westminster Hall, March
8, 2005, Column 399WH.
- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan,
March 4, 2005
- President Bush statement on the NPT,
March 7, 2005
- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan,
February 23, 2005
- US Compliance with Article VI of
the NPT, US Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control Stephen
Rademaker, February 3, 2005
- 'Seven Steps to Raise World Security',
Financial Times Op-ed by IAEA Director General Dr Mohamed ElBaradei,
February 2, 2005
- Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
on Russia's implementation of the NPT, November 4, 2004
- Joint Ministerial Statement on the
CTBT, New York, September 23, 2004
- 'Nonproliferation and Disarmament
Go Hand in Hand', New Agenda Coalition op-ed in the International
Herald Tribune, September 22, 2004
Related News
On March 4, 2005, the Report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations,
'In Larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for
all', was published. Heads of State and Government are expected to take
decisions on the report in September 2005. You can view the sections on
Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Weapons at: http://www.acronym.org.uk/docs/0503/doc19.htm
and the full text is available at: http://www.un.org/reform/
On December 1, 2004, the report of the UN's High-level Panel on Threats,
Challenges and Change, 'A
more secure world: our shared responsibility', was transmitted to
the UN Secretary-General with recommendations concerning collective security,
the role of the UN and nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
On April 28, 2004 the UN Security Council
adopted resolution 1540 (2004) on preventing Proliferation of Weapons
of Mass Destruction, analysed in Disarmament
Diplomacy No.79. The resolution was originally introduced into the
Security Council by the United States, following President
Bush's keynote speech on proliferation on February 11. The resolution
focusses on measures to prevent illegal trafficking and proliferation
of WMD to non-state actors (ie terrorists).
The NPT PrepCom 2003
- Rogues and Rhetoric: The 2003
NPT PrepCom Slides Backwards, by Rebecca Johnson, Disarmament
Diplomacy, Issue No. 71, June - July 2003
- Appendix: Chair's Factual
Summary, May 9, 2003
- NPT PrepCom Final Interim Report, by
Rebecca Johnson, May 9, 2003
- NPT PrepCom Second Interim Report:
Nuclear Disarmament, by Rebecca Johnson, May 4, 2003
- NPT Interim Report, by Rebecca
Johnson, May 3, 2003
- Incentives, Obligations And Enforcement:
Does the NPT Meet its States Parties' Needs?, by Rebecca
Johnson, to be published in Disarmament Diplomacy 70, April
- May 2003
- Introduction to the second NPT PrepCom
Meeting, April 2003
NPT-related News and Analysis, 2003
- US-DPRK-China Talks, Beijing,
April 23/25
- 'Arms Control Is Largely The
Agenda Of The Past': Speech by Linton Brooks, Administrator, US
National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), April 23
- UN Disarmament Commission
Session Concludes Without Agreement, April 17
- 'Today's Darkness At Noon':
Remarks by UNSG Jayantha Dhanapala, April 12
- 'If The US Is Ready To Make A
Bold Switchover...The DPRK Will Not Stick To Any Particular
Dialogue Format': Remarks by North Korean Foreign Ministry
Spokesperson, April 12
- No Breakthrough in North Korean
Nuclear Crisis as Pyongyang Vows To Avoid 'Miserable Fate' of
Iraq
- US Insists Iran Poses Gathering
Nuclear Proliferation Threat
- Further Escalation of
Political, Nuclear Tensions in South Asia
- Duma Postpones Ratification of
Moscow Treaty on Eve of US-Led War in Iraq
- Pentagon Consideration of 'Mini
Nukes' Hits Headlines Again
- 'A Mere Extension Of The
Continuum': US Nuclear Use Policy In The Spotlight
- Senior Senate Democrats
Introduce Resolution Demanding 'Comprehensive' Non-Proliferation
Strategy
- Republican House Policy
Committee Sets Out Ambitious Nuclear Weapons Agenda
- Work to Prepare CTBT Regime
Continues Into Seventh Year
- 'Even The Signing Of A
Non-Aggression Treaty With The US Would Not Help Avert A War':
North Korean Foreign Ministry Statement, April 6
- International vs. Domestic
Nuclear Safeguards: The Need for Clarity in the Debate over
Effectiveness, by Roger G. Johnston and Morten Bremer Maerli,
Disarmament Diplomacy 69, February - March 2003
- Good News for
Non-Proliferation? The Changing Relationship Between Russia, NATO
and the NPT , by Sverre Lodgaard, Disarmament Diplomacy 69,
February - March 2003
- North Korea Turns Its Back on
NPT in Spiralling Diplomatic Confrontation, News Review,
Disarmament Diplomacy 69, February - March 2003
- US Outlines Plans for Missile
Defence, Nuclear Weapons Programmes, News Review, Disarmament
Diplomacy 69, February - March 2003
- 'Pie In The Sky': North Korea
Response To Us Offer of Talks, January 15, 2003
- North Korea Announces
Withdrawal from NPT, January 10: Statement and Reaction
- Challenging 'the Very
Existence of WMD': Speech by Jayantha Dhanapala, December
3
- News Review item on Cuba and
the NPT, October - November 2002
- Cuba Announces Intent to Join
NPT, September 14
Useful Links
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NPT Preparatory Committee, April 8 -
19, 2002
NPT Review Conference 2000
Reports and Analysis
- The 2000 NPT Review
Conference: A Delicate, Hard-Won Compromise, by Rebecca
Johnson, Disarmament Diplomacy No. 46, May 2000.
- The NPT: Surviving the
Storm, by Ambassador Thomas Graham, Disarmament
Diplomacy No. 46, May 2000.
- Acronym Institute Briefings on the Sixth
NPT Review Conference, by Rebecca Johnson and Jenni Rissanen,
April 24 to May 20, 2000.
- The Review Conference Opens:
Dominant Issues and Contested Claims, by Rebecca Johnson
and Jenni Rissanen, Disarmament Diplomacy No 45, April
2000
- ACRONYM No 13 - The
Non-Proliferation Treaty: Challenging Times, February
2000
Rebecca Johnson analyses the issues facing States Parties at the
2000 NPT Review Conference. This report includes full text of the
treaty, related agreements, signtories and background
information.
- Preparing for the 2000 NPT
Review Conference, by Rebecca Johnson, Disarmament
Diplomacy, November 1999
Official Documents
NPT Preparatory Committee meeting 1999:
NPT Preparatory Committee meeting 1998:
- Acronym No 12 - Reviewing
the Non-Proliferation Treaty: Problems and Processes, by
Rebecca Johnson, September 1998
A report of the Second Preparatory Committee meeting of the 2000
Review Conference of the NPT, Geneva, April 27 to May 8, 1998.
- Acronym Institute Briefings from the 1998
NPT PrepCom
- Documents from the 1998 NPT
PrepCom
- PrepCom Opinion: Farewell to
the NPT's Strengthened Review Process?, by Tariq Rauf,
Disarmament Diplomacy, May 1998
- Acronym No 11 - Reviewing
the Non-Proliferation Treaty: Preparing for the Future, by
Rebecca Johnson, April 1998
Information, ideas and documents on the Strengthened Review
Process of the NPT for participants to the second PrepCom, Geneva,
27 April to 8 May, 1998.
NPT Preparatory Committee meeting 1997:
NPT Review and Extension Conference 1995:
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