In Focus : IAEA and the NPT
Sixth NPT Review Conference
"NPT review conference ends with pledge to achieve total disarmament"
Crowning a fifteen-year international effort to produce a consensus, 155 States parties to the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) have come to an agreement that there should be "an unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear weapon States to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals." [Final Document]
The 2000 NPT Review Conference is the first to meet since the Treaty's indefinite extension in 1995. Serving as Conference President is Mr. Abdallah Baali, Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations.
The Conference opened 24 April 2000 at United Nations Headquarters in New York. It will continue for four-weeks until 19 May 2000.
Available information on the NPT 2000 Review Conference:
- Press Kit
- Provisional Agenda
- Opening Statements:
- Press Releases:
- IAEA Director General Calls for Rededication to Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime
- Review Conference of Parties to NPT Opens at Headquarters; Much Disarmament Machinery Has "Started to Rust", Secretary-General Warns
- More information from the UN Department for Disarmament Affairs.