Preparatory Committee for the 2000 Review
Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on
the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
NPT/CONF.2000/PC.I/15
14 April 1997
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ORIGINAL: CHINESE/ENGLISH
First session
New York, 7-18 April 1997
Proposals for Inclusion in the Report on the
First Session of the Preparatory Committee for the
2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Submitted by China The Chinese delegation would
like to present the following proposals for inclusion into the
recommendation section of the report of the Preparatory Committee
for the 2000 Review Conference on its first session:
Cluster one: implementation of the provisions of
the Treaty relating to non-proliferation of nuclear
weapons, nuclear disarmament, nuclear-weapon-free zones
and security assurances.
- The nuclear-weapon States concerned should abandon their
policy of nuclear deterrence; the States with large
nuclear arsenals should further reduce drastically their
nuclear stockpiles, and should destroy the removed
nuclear warheads rather than simply transfer them from
deployment to storage.
- All nuclear-weapon States should undertake not to be the
first to use nuclear weapons at any time and under any
circumstances, and to conclude a legally binding
international instrument to that effect.
- No country should develop and deploy space weapon systems
or missile defence systems that undermine strategic
security and stability.
- States with nuclear weapons deployed outside their
borders should bring all these weapons home.
- The States that have not yet signed the Comprehensive
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty are urged to do so at an early
date, and all signatory States should strive to achieve
the early entry-into-force of the Treaty.
- All States should work for the immediate commencement and
early conclusion of the negotiations in the Conference on
Disarmament on a non-discriminatory, universal and
internationally and effectively verifiable convention
banning the production of fissile material for nuclear
weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, in accordance
with the statement of the Special Coordinator of the
Conference on Disarmament and the mandate contained
therein.
- An international convention on the complete prohibition
and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons under
effective international supervision should be concluded
through negotiations with the participation of all
States.
- All States should support the efforts of the
non-nuclear-weapon States to establish
nuclear-weapon-free zones on the basis of arrangements
freely arrived at and in the light of the actual
conditions of the regions concerned. All nuclear-weapon
States should pledge their support for the establishment
of nuclear-weapon-free zones, respect their status and
undertake corresponding obligations.
- All nuclear-weapon States should commit themselves
unconditionally not to use or threaten to use nuclear
weapons against non-nuclear-weapon States or
nuclear-weapon-free zones, and conclude, at an early
date, legally binding international instruments to that
effect.
Cluster two: implementation of the provisions of
the Treaty relating to nuclear non-proliferation and
safeguards.
- In order to facilitate the Treaty's function in
preventing nuclear weapons proliferation, the States
parties should continue to support the safeguards of the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
- All States parties should support the IAEA programme for
strengthening the effectiveness and improving the
efficiency of the safeguards system. The nuclear-weapon
States should apply those measures provided for in the
model protocol that each of them identifies as capable of
contributing to the nuclear non-proliferation objectives.
Cluster three: implementation of the provisions of
the Treaty relating to international cooperation in
peaceful uses of nuclear energy
- All States parties should make every effort to facilitate
international cooperation in peaceful uses of nuclear
energy. States that are in a position to do so should
assist the developing countries to master technologies
for peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
- All States parties should ensure that measures taken by
them to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation would
facilitate rather than hamper the exercise of the
legitimate rights of the developing countries for
peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Those restrictions on
the transfer of technologies for peaceful uses of nuclear
energy that are beyond safeguards required under the
Treaty should be removed. Universality of the Treaty.
- All States parties should strive for the achievement of
the universality of the Treaty.