Disarmament

In the international community’s movement towards a world free of nuclear weapons, the highlight of 2010 was the 64-point action plan on nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and peaceful uses of nuclear energy and a call for a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East adopted in May by the eighth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (npt). The Review Conference recognized that Treaty breaches undermined that momentum, and called on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to return to the Treaty. The Conference recognized the legitimate interests of non-nuclear-weapon States in constraining the development and qualitative improvement of nuclear weapons and ending the development of advanced new types of such weapons.

Related Subject(s): United Nations