Translation of "NPT Review Conference Preparatory Committee " (English → French) :

Preparatory Committee for the NPT Review Conference | Preparatory Committee for the Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

NPT Review Conference | Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference | Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

Non-proliferation Treaty 2000 Review Conference | NPT Review Conference

Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference [ NPT Review Conference ]

Non-Proliferation Treaty Review and Extension Conference [ NPT Review and Extension Conference ]

1. Expresses its serious preoccupation about the danger of a new nuclear arms race; recalls the statement on 30 April 2007 by the then UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (addressing the preparatory committee for the 2010 NPT review conference) that there is ‘a persisting crisis of confidence in the treaty’ evidenced by the ‘disappointing outcome’ of the 2005 NPT review conference; stresses, therefore, that strengthening the NPT as the cornerstone of th ...[+++]e global non-proliferation regime is of vital importance and that every effort should thus be made to implement the treaty in all its aspects; affirms that for multilateral efforts to be effective they must be pursued within a well developed vision of achieving a nuclear-weapon-free world at the earliest possible date;

The EU continues to support the decisions and the resolution on the Middle East adopted at the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference as well as the Final Documents of the 2000 NPT Review Conference and of the 2010 NPT Review Conference.

Calls for a strengthening of the international system of treaties and regimes against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; stresses the need for closer cooperation between the EU and the United States in combating terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, in compliance with international law, and for both sides to support the role that the UN must play in these areas; urges the Council to discuss with its US counterparts how to make a positive approach to future NPT Preparatory Committees (NPT PrepComs), as a first opportunity to strengthen the global non-nuclear proliferation regime in the run-up t ...[+++]o the NPT Review Conference in 2010; underlines the need to discuss at the summit a number of nuclear disarmament initiatives based on the ‘13 practical steps’ agreed to unanimously in the 2000 NPT Review Conference; hopes that at this summit the US Administration will be willing to adopt a common strategy with the EU aimed at making progress on disarmament in terms of both weapons of mass destruction and conventional weaponry; calls on the EU and the United States to avoid the potential vacuum in the period 2009-2010, when the major agreements on disarmament will be due to be renewed; hopes that the very important agreements reached in 1999, 2000 and 2001 with Russia will be maintained; calls on the United States to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) as a meaningful step towards reducing the operational relevance of nuclear weapons;

17. Calls for a strengthening of the international system of treaties and regimes against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; stresses the need for closer cooperation between the EU and the United States in combating terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, in compliance with international law, and for both sides to support the role that the UN must play in these areas; urges the Council to discuss with its US counterparts how to make a positive approach to future NPT Preparatory Committees (NPT PrepComs), as a first opportunity to strengthen the global non-nuclear proliferation regime in the run-up t ...[+++]o the NPT Review Conference in 2010; underlines the need to discuss at the summit a number of nuclear disarmament initiatives based on the '13 practical steps' agreed to unanimously in the 2000 NPT Review Conference; hopes that at this summit the US Administration will be willing to adopt a common strategy with the EU aimed at making progress on disarmament in terms of both weapons of mass destruction and conventional weaponry; calls on the EU and the United States to avoid the potential vacuum in the period 2009-2010, when the major agreements on disarmament will be due to be renewed; hopes that the very important agreements reached in 1999, 2000 and 2001 with Russia will be maintained; calls on the United States to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) as a meaningful step towards reducing the operational relevance of nuclear weapons;