The Prevention of Nuclear Weapons
Proliferation
1. The prevention of
nuclear weapons proliferation is an effective and essential
step towards the complete prohibition and thorough
destruction of nuclear weapons. Nuclear
non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament complement each
other and are mutually reinforcing. The efforts
made by the international community to prevent nuclear
weapons proliferation are an indispensable part of
international disarmament process.
2. States
parties should devote themselves to building a global
security environment of cooperation and mutual trust, and to
ensuring common security for all members of the
international community, so as to root out the motivation of
some states to acquire, develop and maintain nuclear
weapons. This is the fundamental guarantee for
preventing nuclear weapons proliferation.
3.
The exercise of double or multiple standards on
non-proliferation of nuclear weapons must be discarded.
This is an important prerequisite for the success
of non-proliferation effort.
4. States parties
should strengthen dialogue and cooperation on the prevention
of nuclear weapons proliferation on an equal footing.
The concerns about the nuclear proliferation
should be addressed in strict accordance with the
obligations and procedures stipulated in the relevant
international legal instruments. This is the
correct and effective way to deal with issues of the
prevention of nuclear weapons proliferation.
5.
Universal adherence to the NPT is an important component of
preventing nuclear weapons proliferation.
Countries that have not yet acceded to the NPT are
urged to do so unconditionally at an early date and to place
all their nuclear facilities under International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards in accordance with the
Treaty.
6. IAEA safeguards is an effective
shield against nuclear weapons proliferation. All
states should support the safeguards and the ?integrated
safeguards program? developed by the Secretariat through
combining traditional safeguards program with strengthened
safeguards measures. Those which have not yet
signed the Protocol Additional to the Safeguards Agreement
should accelerate their negotiations with IAEA and bring it
into effect as soon as possible.
7. The States bear unshirkable responsibility
for physical protection of nuclear material and nuclear
facilities. Every state should, taking account of
their own situations, make and complete their laws and
regulations on physical protection, so as to prevent nuclear
material from being acquired and nuclear facilities from
being targeted by terrorists. All states should
support IAEA?s efforts in countering against nuclear
terrorism. In order to achieve an early amendment
of the Convention on Physical Protection of Nuclear
Material, the States Parties should abide by the consensus
reached at the Informal Expert Conference in May 2001.
8. Efforts should be made to prevent
restrictions on international cooperation in the peaceful
uses of nuclear energy in the name of preventing nuclear
weapons proliferation.
9.
Strengthening nuclear export control is one of the important
means to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation.
All states parties should, in accordance with
Article 3.2 of the NPT, strengthen nuclear export control.
A universal and non-discriminative international
treaty should be concluded through negotiations at an early
date , so as to establish a just and equitable global
non-proliferation mechanism in replacement of the current
export control regimes based on group of countries.
Nuclear-Weapon-Free
Zones
10. Nuclear-weapon-free zones
have important significance in promoting nuclear disarmament
and preventing nuclear weapons proliferation, enhancing
peace and security at the level of region and the world at
large.
11. All the nuclear-weapon States should
undertake unconditionally not to use or threaten to use
nuclear weapons against the non-nuclear weapon states or
nuclear-weapon-free zones, and conclude international legal
instruments there upon.
12. The principles on
establishment of nuclear-weapon-free zones adopted by UNDC
in 1999 should be adhered to faithfully.
13.
Nuclear-weapon States should support the efforts of
non-nuclear weapon states in establishing
nuclear-weapon-free zones on the basis of arrangements
freely arrived at among the states of the regions concerned.
The legal status of the nuclear-weapon-free zones
should be respected. The nuclear-weapon States
should undertake corresponding obligations in a legally
binding manner.
14. Nuclear-weapon States
should, in accordance with the provisions contained in
paragraph 5, Article VII of the Final Document of 2000 NPT
Review Conference, take steps to bring into effects their
security assurances provided by the
nuclear-weapon-free-zones treaties and their protocols.
Middle East Nuclear
Issue
15. The Middle East issue
should be resolved in a spirit of reconciliation.
The United Nations, and the Security Council in
particular, should be supported to play an active role in
this regard. Parties concerned should earnestly
carry out the agreements and common understanding reached on
the basis of relevant UN resolutions and the principle of
?land for peace?.
16. The initiatives and the
efforts made by states in the region to establish a Middle
East zone free of nuclear weapons as well as other weapons
of mass destruction should be supported. Practical
measures must be taken to promote the establishment of a
Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons as well as other
weapons of mass destruction in accordance with relevant
General Assembly resolutions and the Resolution on the
Middle East adopted at the 1995 NPT Review and Extension
Conference.
17. Israel's accession to the
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the
placement of all its nuclear facilities under comprehensive
IAEA safeguards will play an important role in realizing the
goal of universal adherence to the Treaty in the Middle East.