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UN / NPT CONFERENCE PREPS
STORY: UN / NPT CONFERENCE PREPS
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SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 9 MAY 2014, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
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9 MAY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) ambassador Enrique Roman-Morey of Peru, chair of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT):
“On nuclear disarmament, among other efforts, there was a new development the five nuclear weapons States –China, France, Russian Federation, United Kingdom and United States – all presented reports in a common format on their actions on nuclear disarmament."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) ambassador Enrique Roman-Morey of Peru, chair of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT):
“Many States –I said- highlighted the humanitarian consequences of the detonation of a nuclear weapon, whether by design or by accident, and that no State and no international organization has the capacity to deal with resulting humanitarian and environmental consequences. For these 146 States eliminating all nuclear weapons is the only option.”
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) ambassador Enrique Roman-Morey of Peru, chair of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT):
“The nuclear weapons States recognized such consequences, but favoured step-by-step approach to nuclear weapons disarmaments.”
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) ambassador Enrique Roman-Morey of Peru, chair of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT):
“The take-away from this prep Com is that all NPT States are committed to finding ways of achieving a world free of nuclear weapons and recognized that the process will be long and difficult and nuclear non proliferation and nuclear safety and security add definitely to the security of all States.”
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The chair of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) ambassador Enrique Roman-Morey of Peru said today (9 May) that “the five nuclear weapons States –China, France, Russian Federation, United Kingdom and United States – all presented reports in a common formats on their actions on nuclear disarmaments.”
Speaking to reporters after the closing of the two-week preparatory meeting, he also said that many States “highlighted the humanitarian consequences of the detonation of a nuclear weapon, whether by design or by accident, and that no State and no international organization has the capacity to deal with resulting humanitarian and environmental consequences. For these 146 States eliminating all nuclear weapons is the only option.”
Roman-Morey added “the nuclear weapons States recognized such consequences, but favoured step-by-step approach to nuclear weapons disarmaments.”
The Peruvian diplomat noted “the take-away from this prep Com is that all NPT States are committed to finding ways of achieving a world free of nuclear weapons and recognized that the process will be long and difficult and nuclear non proliferation and nuclear safety and security add definitely to the security of all States.”
The Third Preparatory Committee focused on nuclear non proliferation, nuclear disarmament, peaceful use of nuclear energy, humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons and the establishment of a zone free of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East.
The NPT, a landmark international treaty which entered into force in 1970, aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.
The nuclear-armed states of the world—China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), France, India, Israel, Pakistan, United Kingdom (UK), and the United States (US)—currently possess approximately 17,300 nuclear weapons. All these states are engaged in programmes to develop and modernize their nuclear weapons, delivery systems, and/or related
infrastructure.
While the numbers of warheads are far below those at the height of the cold war, multilateral nuclear disarmament has not occurred. The majority of warhead reductions have been achieved through dismantlement of nonoperational warheads or warheads in storage. In addition, nuclear-armed states are investing in their arsenals with the view to keeping nuclear weapons for many decades to come.
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