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At its sixty-fourth session, the General Assembly called upon African States that had not yet done so to sign and ratify the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Pelindaba) as soon as possible; and also called upon the African

At the 15th meeting, on 22 October, the representative of Mexico, on behalf of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Japan, Mexico, Monaco, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, the Philippines, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Uruguay,

While the draft resolution, entitled “Reducing nuclear danger”, contains a number of practical measures of which we are strong and active advocates, we were unable to support the text and voted against it, given that it fails to acknowledge the

At its sixty-third session, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to prepare a report reviewing the results of the implementation of the recommendations and

For example, the text of the Final Document had significantly watered down the commitments for nuclear-weapon States to reduce the operational status of their arsenals and to cease the development and qualitative improvement of their nuclear weapons; it did not oblige the nuclear-weapon States to abolish the role of nuclear weapons in their military doctrines or to accept a legally binding instrument for the prohibition of nuclear weapons; it did not call for the withdrawal of nuclear weapons from the territories of non-nuclearweapon States; it did not include the specific timeline for the total elimination of nuclear weapons called for by the Group of Non-Aligned States parties to the Treaty; and, in particular, it failed to call upon Israel, the only obstacle to a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the

The States members of the Organization of American States (OAS) adopted resolution AG/RES. 2533 (XL-O/10) entitled “Disarmament and non-proliferation in the hemisphere”, bearing in mind the determination of the international community to promote and adopt specific measures

The main aim of the IAEA verification regime is to prevent the diversion of nuclear material from peaceful activities, to “ensure that special fissionable and other materials, services, equipment, facilities, and information made available by the Agency or at its request or under its supervision or control are not used in such a way as to further any military purpose” (article III A.5 of the Statute) and to reinforce mutual trust and transparency as well as to allow all

Turkmenistan has ratified a number of international conventions and agreements for the implementation of its disarmament obligations: the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical

Egypt notes with grave concern that, while all States of the

(g) Universal approaches can be usefully complemented by cooperative efforts and initiatives, such as the Proliferation Security Initiative, the Global Partnership against the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Global Initiative to

Those resolutions include Security Council resolution 487 (1981) and, in particular, paragraph 5 thereof, which calls upon Israel urgently to place its nuclear facilities under the safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency; the two IAEA resolutions Nos. GC(53)/RES/17, adopted in 2009, entitled Israeli nuclear capabilities, and GC(55)/RES/14 of 2011, entitled Application of IAEA safeguards in the Middle East; and General Assembly resolution 66/61 of 2011, entitled The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, which recalls that Israel

Activities conducted in 2008 include the regional seminar “Towards 2010: the Role of the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty in Strengthening the

Egypt remains at the forefront of countries that have provided unlimited support to the IAEA since its establishment; it has continued that support to date, based on its

At the 10th meeting, on 16 October, the representative of the United States of America, on behalf of Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, Palau, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America,

The States members of the Rio Group, as part of the first densely populated area declared a nuclearweapon-free zone through the Treaty of Tlatelolco about 40 years ago, welcome the convening of the Second Conference of States Parties and Signatories to Treaties that Establish Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones and Mongolia to consider ways and means to enhance consultations among States parties and signatories, treaty agencies and other interested States, with the aim of promoting coordination and convergence in the

The Republic of Cuba has acquired extensive experience in adopting and implementing laws and policies that enable it to observe environmental norms in all aspects of public life, including the norms found in the various international disarmament and arms control instruments to which Cuba is a party, including the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Biological

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) hosts periodic seminars for invited representatives of non-governmental organizations and conducts educational seminars and technical meetings for diplomats and journalists, with a view to

The second reason for the stalemate in the Conference is the pursuit of discriminatory policies by some States in the field of nuclear