Traduction de «Monde aux multiples puissances nucléaires » (Français → Anglais) :

(t) to work coherently, consistently and efficiently with EU Member States towards achieving a successful outcome of the 2010 NPT Review Conference; to commit to the aim of complete nuclear disarmament in line with UN Security Council resolution 1887 endorsing the goal of a nuclear-weapons-free world once the conditions are met, and disarmament under strict and effective international control; to deepen its dialogue with all nuclear powers to pursue a common agenda and a specific timetable aimed at progressive reduction and eventual ...[+++] elimination of the nuclear warheads stockpile whilst improving the means for verification; to urge the ratification and the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)(AM 49),

In the matter of Iran’s nuclear industry, the Council has many a time said it was committed to a diplomatic solution, which would take account of the international concern about Iran’s nuclear programme, but at the same time confirms Iran’s right to the peaceful utilisation of nuclear power in accordance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Additionally, as Ernie Regehr argued before this committee in November, it is essential that a limited missile defence system designed to deter a threshold nuclear power from thinking that it could easily threaten or blackmail the U.S. remains limited, i.e. does not become the basis for future strategic defences that would negate the deterrent forces of nuclear powers like Russia or China.

The whole international community, nuclear and non-nuclear alike, is concerned about proliferation, but the new attempt by the nuclear weapons States to gloss over the discriminatory aspects of the NPT, which are now becoming permanent, has caused consternation. Many States see a two-class world of nuclear haves and have-nots becoming a permanent feature of the global landscape.

Through the failure of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in the United States, fresh impetus will be given to the suspicion on the part of Third World nuclear powers and countries on the threshold of becoming nuclear powers that the Non-Proliferation Treaty primarily serves to maintain the large nations’ nuclear status and discriminates against small countries.

13. Recognises that it is necessary both to obtain adherence by all states to the core treaties of the international non-proliferation regime and to ensure their effective implementation; considers India"s call on the nuclear weapon states to negotiate the complete dismantling of nuclear arms as legitimate and recalls that the nuclear weapon states have undertaken, in article VI of the NPT, to enter into negotiations on nuclear disarmament, with the ultimate aim of ridding the world of nuclear arms; stresses, however, that these commitments could be undermined by India and Pakistan if they continue to refuse to adhere to the NPT;