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Working papers and other documents submitted to the 2018 NPT Preparatory Committee

CONFERENCE PAPERS 

Indicative timetable

Indicative timetable (summary)

List of non-governmental organisations

 

Chair's factual summary (3 May 2018)

Draft Chair's factual summary (16 May 2018)

Chair's reflections on the state of the NPT

Draft report of the Preparatory Committee on its second session

Draft participants list

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/1

Estimated cost of the 2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

Note by the Secretariat

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/4

Financial report

 

WORKING PAPERS

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.1

Nuclear cooperation with States that are not parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

Working paper submitted by Egypt     

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.2

The role of nuclear weapons in security and defence doctrines

Working paper submitted by Egypt

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.3

Peaceful uses of nuclear energy

Working paper submitted by Egypt

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.4

Strengthening nuclear safety

Working paper submitted by Switzerland

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.5

Addressing “Vienna issues”: the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty; compliance and verification; export controls; cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy; nuclear safety; nuclear security; and discouraging withdrawal from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

Working paper submitted by Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden (the Vienna Group of Ten)

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.6

Nuclear disarmament verification

Working paper submitted by the European Union

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.7

Fissile material cut-off treaty

Working paper submitted by the European Union

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.8

Framework for peaceful nuclear cooperation

Working paper submitted by France

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.9

Humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons

Working paper submitted by Algeria, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Egypt, Guyana, Indonesia, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Malta, Malaysia, Mexico, Mozambique, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa and Thailand

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.10

Nuclear weapons and security: a humanitarian perspective

Working paper submitted by Austria

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.11

Conclusions from the first session and recommendations for the second session of the Preparatory Committee

Working paper submitted by the Netherlands

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.12

Procedures in relation to exports of nuclear materials and certain categories of equipment and material under article III (2) of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

Working paper submitted by Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America as the members of the Zangger Committee

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.13

Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: reiterating the urgency of its implementation

Working paper submitted by New Zealand on behalf of the New Agenda Coalition (Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand and South Africa)

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.15

Elements for a plan of action for the elimination of nuclear weapons

Working paper submitted by the Group of Non-Aligned States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.16

Regional issues: Middle East

Working paper submitted by the Group of Non-Aligned States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.17

Nuclear disarmament

Working paper submitted by the Group of Non-Aligned States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.18

Nuclear testing

Working paper submitted by the Group of Non-Aligned States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.19

Nuclear-weapon-free zones

Working paper submitted by the Group of Non-Aligned States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.20

The inalienable right to develop research, production and uses of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes

Working paper submitted by the Group of Non-Aligned States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.21

Safeguards

Working paper submitted by the Group of Non-Aligned States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.22

Security assurances against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons

Working paper submitted by the Group of Non-Aligned States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.23

Verification

Working paper submitted by the Group of Non-Aligned States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.24

Action to strengthen the review process for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

Working paper submitted by the members of the Non Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative (Australia, Canada, Chile, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Turkey and United Arab Emirates)

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.25

The inalienable right to develop research, production and uses of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes

Working paper submitted by the Islamic Republic of Iran

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.26

Proposals by the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative to enhance transparency for strengthening the review process for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

Working paper submitted by the members of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative (Australia, Canada, Chile, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Turkey and United Arab Emirates)

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.27

Nuclear disarmament

Working paper submitted by the Islamic Republic of Iran

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.28

Security assurances against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons

Working paper submitted by the Islamic Republic of Iran

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.29

Nuclear safeguards standards under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Security assurances against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons

Working paper submitted by the members of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative (Australia, Canada, Chile, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Turkey and United Arab Emirates)

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.30

Creating the conditions for nuclear disarmament 

Working paper submitted by the United States of America

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.31

Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East

Working paper submitted by the Islamic Republic of Iran

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.32

Nuclear issues 

Working paper submitted by China

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.33

Establishing regional conditions conducive to a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction and delivery systems

Working paper submitted by the United States of America

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.34

Specific regional issues and implementation of the 1995 resolution on the Middle East

Working paper submitted by the Group of Arab State

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.35

Nuclear disarmament

Working paper submitted by the Group of Arab States

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.36

Democratic People's Republic of Korea 

Working paper submitted by the members of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative (Australia, Canada, Chile, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, the Philippines, Poland, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates)

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.37

Building Bridges to Effective Nuclear Disarmament | Recommendations for the 2020 Review Process for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) | Group of Eminent Persons for Substantive Advancement of Nuclear Disarmament 

Working paper submitted by Japan

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.38

Impact and Empowerment - the role of Gender in the NPT

Working paper submitted by Ireland

 

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/9

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Addressing the North Korea’s nuclear challenge

NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/7/Rev.1

Joint Statement on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) by the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China