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NPT's crucial role lauded at UN

Xinhua, April 28, 2015 Adjust font size:

The crucial role of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was lauded at UN headquarters in New York on Monday as the review conference of the parties to the treaty was opened here.

Enrique Roman-Morey, acting president of the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), made the statement as he opened the month-long gathering. The conference runs from April 27 to May 22.

"The treaty, which entered into force 45 years ago, has played a crucial role in nuclear non-proliferation, nuclear disarmament and the peaceful uses of nuclear energy," said the acting president.

The president of the review conference is Ambassador Taous Feroukhi from Algeria.

"The Review Conference provides all parties to the treaty with an important opportunity to reaffirm again their commitment to the treaty and to the fullest implementation of all its provisions, as well as the consensus of previous review conferences, so as to hold the integrity of the treaty and to ensure that it remains the cornerstone of the global nuclear non-proliferation regime," he said.

Conferences to review the operation of the treaty have been held at five-year intervals since the treaty went into effect in 1970. Each conference has sought to find agreement on a final declaration that would assess the implementation of the treaty's provisions and make recommendations on measures to further strengthen it.

The current UN gathering is the ninth Review Conference of the treaty and the fourth to be held since May 1995, when State parties adopted decisions on the indefinite extension of the treaty, on the strengthening of its review process and on principles and objects for nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, together with a resolution on the Middle East.

The NPT is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.

The NPT represents the only binding commitment in a multilateral treaty to the goal of disarmament by the nuclear- weapon States. Endite