What Future for the NPT?

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Notes

¹ Letter by representatives of the People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America, and France of May 1, 2000 to the Chairman of the 2000 NPT Review Conference, Doc. NPT/CONF.2000/21, Yaderny Kontrol, No. 5, September–October 2000, pp. 44–47.

² W. Potter, “NPT Review Conference: Searching for a Consensus,” Yaderny Kontrol 11, No. 3 (Autumn 2005), p. 25. For detailed analysis of the results of the conference, see pp. 96–103.

³ International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Report, “Eliminating Nuclear Threats: A Practical Agenda for Global Policymakers,” 2009.

⁴ “UN Security Council Resolution 1887,” 2009, <http://www.refworld.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/rwmain?docid=4abcd4792,> last accessed on April 16, 2013.

⁵ The treaty entered into force on February 5, 2011. For more details about the essence of the treaty, see: Chapter 14.

⁶ The status of these recommendations is somewhat diminished by Footnote 1 to Part I of the Final Document, which reads: “The present review is the responsibility of the President and reflects to the best of his knowledge what transpired at the Review Conference with regard to matters under review.”

⁷ This number does not include North Korea, even though documents from the NPT Review Conference do not exclude it from the list of NPT members, with a “status unclear” footnote. Neither does this number include Taiwan, which is recognized by Russia and the majority of other states as an inalienable part of the People's Republic of China. Taiwan signed the NPT on July 1, 1968.

⁸ NPT 2010: Strengthening the Regime (Moscow: PIR Center, 2010); Towards Nuclear Disarmament (Moscow: PIR Center, 2014).

⁹ Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, 2008. NPT, 2010, How to Strengthen the Regime, op. cit., p. 2.