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Action 20: All States are encouraged to support the development of appropriate legally binding verification arrangements, within the context of IAEA,

To support, consistent with the principles of irreversibility and verification and in furthering the establishment of safeguarded worldwide nuclear disarmament, the development of appropriate legally binding verification arrangements, within the context

The only State to have granted international experts unfettered access

Nuclear disarmament was a complicated process that would entail several elements, namely, the

Those measures, which had been taken up by the European Union, included

It was urgent to ensure the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, improve IAEA safeguards and protocols, create a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East, promote new disarmament initiatives for the

With enhanced engagement and cooperation with Member States, intergovernmental organizations and civil society, the disarmament programme brought forward the need for the early entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, and — after a 10-year impasse — a decision was made by the

The Rio Group urges all members of the Conference to demonstrate the political will necessary to ensure the start, without delay, of its substantive work through the adoption and implementation of a balanced and comprehensive programme of work that moves the nuclear disarmament agenda forward, including negotiations on a nuclear weapons convention, a universal, unconditional and legally binding instrument on negative security assurances for non-nuclear-weapon States, the prevention of an arms race in outer space and a multilateral and

Specifically, substantial progress in the implementation of article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the achievement of a meaningful agreement on all three pillars of the Treaty at the Review Conference in May, the early entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, and the prompt commencement of negotiations on and

Cuba supports the adoption of a programme of work in the Conference on Disarmament, and has said on various occasions that it is prepared to negotiate in parallel a treaty which eliminates and prohibits nuclear weapons, a treaty prohibiting the arms race in outer space, a treaty providing effective security assurances for States which, like Cuba, do not possess nuclear weapons,

Important steps in the process of nuclear disarmament and in strengthening the non-proliferation regime should be: the swift entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, the launch at the Conference on Disarmament of negotiations

Action 15 of the action plan of the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons states that “[…] the Conference on Disarmament should, within the context of an agreed, comprehensive and balanced programme of work, immediately begin negotiations of a treaty banning the

(e) The Conference on Disarmament, as the sole multilateral negotiating body on disarmament, should be urged to devise, in accordance with the request of the First Special Session of the General Assembly devoted to Disarmament, a programme of work that will include the initiation of negotiations over a non-discriminatory, multilateral and

However, political impetus continues to exist for the achievement of interim measures, including de-alerting, reducing and eliminating non-strategic nuclear weapons, consolidating legal norms against the threat or use of nuclear weapons including by means of further articulating the norms of international humanitarian law, establishing universal legally binding commitments against the threat or use of nuclear weapons in

Canada continues to cooperate actively with other like-minded States in a variety of international forums to develop new measures aimed at further strengthening the non-proliferation regime, particularly with regard to the transfer of enrichment and reprocessing technologies

The latest Declaration by the Heads of CSTO member States, adopted on 10 December 2010 in Moscow, notes that the Organization attaches the highest priority to strengthening the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the swift entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, the prevention of nuclear terrorism and the development of

That programme is the best basis for making progress towards negotiations on a

America have stopped the production of fissile materials for use in nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, expresses support for the early commencement of international negotiations within the framework of an approved programme of work of the Conference on

While these differences emerged, it is worth noting that a proponent of the definition “special fissionable material plus neptunium” suggested that under

Welcoming, after years of stalemate, the consensus adoption by the Conference on Disarmament of its decision (CD/1864) of 29 May 2009 on the establishment of a programme of work for its 2009 session, by which the Conference, inter alia, and without prejudice to any past, present or future position, established a Working Group to negotiate a treaty