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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Acronym Institute Coverage, 1995 - 2008
For the latest NPT updates, return to the main page on
the NPT
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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