NPT/CONF.2005/PC.I/5/Add. I

Original: English
First session
New York, 8-19 April 2002

1. Thailand has played a key role in helping realize the South-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Bangkok Treaty) and, in this connection, has organized meetings to promote the development of guidelines on safeguards.

2. The Office of the Atomic Energy Agency for Peace (OAEP) is presently studying the International Atomic Energy Agency Additional Protocol and the import and export controls for the Protocol on dual-use equipment/materials, with a view to participating in the said Protocols.

3. An informal inter-agency working group, comprising the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, OEAP and other concerned agencies, has been established to promote greater understanding among concerned Thai agencies and with other countries on issues such as the deterrence of weapons of mass destruction and the security of the State and the region.

4. OAEP has undertaken measures to help ensure implementation of existing obligations under the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and has participated in the International Monitoring System. In this connection, OAEP is in the process of studying the details regarding the establishment of a radionuclide monitoring station (RN65) in Kampangsaen, Nakorn Pathom Province. Furthermore, OAEP has established two subcommittees to facilitate implementation of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty which have been tasked with the following: (a) finalizing the translation of the Treaty into Thai, and (b) finalizing discussions with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization on the draft Facility Agreement with a view to seeking cabinet approval and ratification.