The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the International Atomic Energy Agency

This page has information about the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the International Atomic Energy Agency (see below).

Non-Proliferation Treaty

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was concluded in 1968 and entered into force on March 5, 1970. It is the founding document of multilateral nonproliferation endeavours. The Acronym Institute has closely followed NPT developments since 1994. Our website features our own detailed reports on NPT meetings and analysis from a range of academic and practitioner commentators.

NPT Preparatory Committee Meeting, 2008

The second PrepCom for the 2010 NPT Review Conference will be held in Geneva from 28 April to 9 May 2008. It will be chaired by Ambassador Volodymyr Yelchenko of the Ukraine.

The Acronym Institute will report on the PrepCom via this website. For NGO updates and copies of the main statements and documents from the PrepCom see also Reaching Critical Will.

Reports and documents from Geneva

• 2008 NPT PrepCom adopts report but not Chair's factual and balanced Summary, Rebecca Johnson, May 9, 2008
• Chair's Factual Summary, May 9, 2008
• Statement by the Delegations of China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America, Delivered by UK Ambassador John Duncan to the 2008 NPT PrepCom, Geneva, May 9, 2008
• 2008 NPT PrepCom: Debates over, plus safeguards summary, Rebecca Johnson, 7 May 2008
• 2008 NPT PrepCom: Decisions taken, Security Assurances debated, Rebecca Johnson, 6 May 2008
• 2008 NPT PrepCom: Calm first week and disarmament roundup, Rebecca Johnson, 2 May 2008
• Day 3, General Debate ends with concerns about cold war legacies of tactical nuclear weapons and contamination, Rebecca Johnson, 30 April 2008
• General debate day 2: Of Common Endeavours and Double Standards, Rebecca Johnson, 29 April 2008
• 2008 NPT PrepCom gets going smoothly, Report of Day 1, Rebecca Johnson, 28 April 2008

Webcasts from Geneva

• The NPT review process, Rebecca Johnson, 28 April 2008
• Expectations for the 2008 PrepCom, Rebecca Johnson, 28 April 2008

More webcasts from Geneva are available at: http://npt-webcast.info.

Reports from Disarmament Diplomacy

• Is the NPT being Overtaken by Events? by Rebecca Johnson , Disarmament Diplomacy, No.87, Spring 2008
• Back from the Brink? The 2007 NPT PrepCom Report
  by Rebecca Johnson. A detailed analysis of the conduct, dynamics, and substantive debates at the 2007 NPT PrepCom, Disarmament Diplomacy No. 85, Summer 2007.
  See also: Chair's Summary, reproduced in full
• Engaging India, Israel and Pakistan in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime, by Jenny Nielsen, Disarmament Diplomacy No. 86, Autumn 2007.
• Looking Towards 2010: What does the Nonproliferation Regime need? Rebecca Johnson, Disarmament Diplomacy No. 84, Spring 2007.
• Politics and Protection: Why the 2005 NPT Review Conference Failed,
  by Rebecca Johnson, Disarmament Diplomacy, Issue No. 80, Autumn 2005.

Further documentation and analysis from the Acronym Institute on the 2005 NPT Review Conference and previous PrepComs and Review Conferences is available at: http://www.acronym.org.uk/npt/index2.htm.

NPT Key Texts and Data

• Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), full text
• States that have signed and ratified the Treaty, September 2004
• Nuclear Disarmament Plan of Action, Final Document, 2000 NPT Review Conference
• Decisions of the 1995 NPT Review Conference on Strengthening the Treaty review process, Principles & Objectives for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament; NPT Extension, and the Resolution on the Middle East

External Links

• For NGO opinion, statements and documents from the 2007 PrepCom and past NPT meetings see http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org.
• For academic analysis and detail on the NPT, see the Monterrey Institute of International Studies and the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies.
• United Nations page on the NPT
• International Atomic Energy Agency

See also: Acronym Institute coverage of previous NPT Review Conferences and PrepComs.

International Atomic Energy Agency

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is responsible for safegards agreements under the NPT (Article III). Increasingly, questions are raised about the contradictions between effective fulfilment of this verification role and the IAEA's mission of promoting nuclear energy. The Acronym Institute does not cover the IAEA's work in general, but only in relation to the NPT. See also our section on Iran and Nuclear Weapons for coverage of IAEA engagement with Iran.

Reports and Statements

• IAEA Director General Dr Mohamed ElBaradei on Nuclear Fuel Supply, 17 April 2008
• IAEA Director General Dr Mohamed ElBaradei Reviving Nuclear Disarmament Speech, 26 February 2008
• IAEA Director General Dr Mohamed ElBaradei on the challenges facing the non-proliferation regime, October 5, 2007
• 'Strengthening the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime: Four Critical Aspects', IAEA Director General Dr Mohamed ElBaradei, May 24, 2007
• IAEA Director General Dr Mohamed ElBaradei on Nuclear Security, May 18, 2007
• '[T]he environment is do as I say not do as I say and that is not sustainable', IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei, February 19, 2007
• 'The linkage between non-proliferation and disarmament should by now be obvious', IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei, February 14, 2007
• IAEA Director General Dr Mohamed ElBaradei on the Quest for Peace in the Middle East, October 24, 2006
• IAEA Director General Dr Mohamed ElBaradei on Verification Challenges, October 16, 2006
• 'Putting Teeth in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Regime', IAEA Director General Dr Mohamed ElBaradei, March 25, 2006
• IAEA Director-General Dr Mohamed ElBaradei, Statement to the NPT Review Conference, May 2, 2005
• Multilateral Approaches to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Expert Group Report submitted to the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, published February 22, 2005. Further information about this report is available at: http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/News/2005/fuelcycle.html
• 'Seven Steps to Raise World Security', Financial Times Op-ed by IAEA Director General Dr Mohamed ElBaradei, February 2, 2005
• '[T]he events of the past few years have placed the NPT and the regime supporting it under unprecedented stress', IAEA Director General Dr Mohamed ElBaradei, November 8, 2004
• '[A] collective security framework that will serve the interests of all countries equally, and make reliance on nuclear weapons obsolete', IAEA Director General Dr Mohamed ElBaradei, November 4, 2004
• 'Time is Ripe to Act on Middle East Weapons', IAEA Director General Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei and Sir Joseph Rotblat, February 3, 2004

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