Statements to the 2019 NPT Preparatory Committee

GENERAL DEBATE

Monday, 29 April

• UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu
• Chair of the Third Preparatory Committee, H.E. Syed Mohamad Hasrin Syed Hussin, Malaysia
• Central Asian states, delivered by Kazakhstan (Mr.)
• Japan (Mr.)
• Kazakhstan (Mr.)
• Iran (Mr.)
• International Atomic Energy Agency (Mr.)
• Non-Aligned Movement, delivered by Venezuela (Mr.)
• European Union (Mr.)
• Malaysia (Ms.)
• United States (Mr.)
• China (Mr.)
• Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL), delivered by Brazil (Mr.)
• Vienna Group of Ten, delivered by Australia (Ms.)
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), delivered by Myanmar (Ms.)
• Myanmar (Ms.)
• New Agenda Coalition (NAC), delivered by Brazil (Mr.)
• Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) (Mr.)
• Russian Federation (Mr.)
• Nordic Countries, delivered by Norway (Ms.)
• Arab Group, delivered by Morocco (Mr.)
• Group of States, delivered by Belgium (Mr.)
• African Group, delivered by Nigeria (Ms.)
• Republic of Korea (Mr.)
• Latvia (Mr.)
• Canada (Ms.)
• Austria (Mr.)
• Niger (Ms.)
• United Arab Emirates (Mr.)
• Mexico (Mr.)
• Netherlands (Mr.)
• South Africa (Mr.)
• Nigeria (Ms.)
• Finland (Mr.) 
• Italy (Mr.)
• New Zealand (Ms.)
• Spain (Mr.)
• France (Mr.)
• Belgium (Mr.)

Tuesday, 30 April

• United Kingdom (Mr.)
• De-alerting Group, delivered by New Zealand (Ms.)
• Caribbean Community, delivered by Antigua and Barbuda (Mr.)
• Iceland (Mr.)
• Argentina (Mr.)
• Poland (Ms.)
• Guatemala (Ms.)
• Brunei Darussalam (Ms.)
• Thailand (Mr.)
• Lao PDR (Mr.)
• Singapore (Mr.)
• Holy See (Mr.)
• Brazil (Mr.)
• Sweden (Ms.)
• Belarus (Mr.)
• Philippines (Ms.)
• Hungary (Mr.)
• Kuwait (Mr.)
• Ukraine (Mr.)
• Peru (Mr.)
• Bulgaria (Mr.)
• Australia (Ms.)
• Estonia (Mr.)
• Botswana (Mr.)
• Lebanon (Ms.)
• Yemen (Mr.)
• Bangladesh (Mr.)
• Cambodia (Mr.)
• Slovakia (Mr.)
• Moldova (Mr.)
• Liechtenstein (Mr.)
• Iraq (Mr.)
• Nepal (Mr.)
• Germany (Mr.)
• Costa Rica (Mr.)
• Qatar (Mr.)
• Jamaica (Mr.)
• Portugal (Mr.)
• Bahrain (Mr.)
• Tanzania (Mr.)
• Ireland (Ms.)
• Viet Nam (Mr.)
• Algeria (Mr.)
• Indonesia (Mr.)
• Saudi Arabia (Mr.)
• Syria (Mr.)
• Romania (Mr.)
• Chile (Mr.)

Wednesday, 1 May

• Kenya (Mr.)
• Sri Lanka (Mr.)
• Nicaragua (Mr.)
• Switzerland (Ms.)
• Norway (Mr.)
• Madagascar (Mr.)
• P5, delivered by China
• Ghana (Ms.)
• Mongolia (Mr.)
• Kyrgyzstan (Ms.)
• Lithuania (Ms.)
• Guyana (Mr.)
• Dominican Republic (Mr.)
• Trinidad and Tobago (Ms.)
• Ecuador (Mr.)
• Colombia (Mr.)
• Cuba (Mr.)
• Uruguay (Mr.)
• Honduras (Ms.)
• Côte d’Ivoire (Mr.)
• El Salvador (Mr.)
• Greece (Mr.)
• Turkey (Mr.)
• Slovenia (Ms.)
• Libya (Mr.)
• Morocco (Ms.)
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), (Mr.) 
• League of Arab States, (Mr.)

Wednesday, 1 May

Civil society

• Hidankyo, Mr. Jiro Hamasumi
• World Council of Churches and Faith Communities Concerned about Nuclear Weapons, Ms. Emily Welty
• Mayors for Peace, Mayor Kazumi Matsui of Hiroshima and Tomihisa Taue of Nagasaki
• International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Mr. Alimzhan Akhmetov
• Gensuikyo, Ms. Yayoi Tsuchida
• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Ms. Taniel Yusef
• Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, Mr. Sergio Duarte
• Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, Mr. John Burroughs
• Arms Control Association, Mr. Daryl Kimball
• Western States Legal Foundation, Ms. Phyllis Olin
• Project Ploughshares and the Human Security in Latin America and the Caribbean Network, Mr. Cesar Jaramillo
• People for Nuclear Disarmament and the Abolition 2000 Working Group on nuclear risk reduction, Mr. John Hallam
• People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy and International Fellowship of Reconciliation, Ms. Sooyoung Hwang
• China Arms Control and Disarmament Association, Mr. Li Chijian
• Egyptian Council for Foreign Relations, Ambassador Mohamed Zahran
• Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft - Vereinigte KriegsdienstgegnerInnen (DF-VK)–Youth statement, Ms. Mandy Lussenhop

CLUSTER I

• Non-Aligned Movement, delivered by Indonesia (Mr.)
• European Union (Ms.)
• Group of 53 states, delivered by Japan (Mr.)
• New Agenda Coalition (Mr.)

Thursday, 2 May

• African Group, delivered by Nigeria (Ms.)
• Arab Group, delivered by Mauritania (Mr.)
• Mexico (Ms.)
• The Quad, delivered by the United Kingdom, on behalf of Sweden, Norway, and the United States (Ms.)
• Republic of Korea (Mr.)
• South Africa (Mr.)
• Nigeria (Ms.)
• Poland (Mr.)
• United States (Mr.)
• Belgium (Mr.)
• Indonesia (Mr.)
• Australia (Ms.)
• Malaysia (Ms.)
• China (Mr.)
• Argentina (Mr.)
• Finland (Mr.)
• Algeria (Mr.)
• Ukraine (Mr.)
• Thailand (Ms.)
• Kuwait (Mr.)
• Netherlands (Ms.)
• Russian Federation (Mr.)
• Czech Republic (Mr.)
• Guatemala (Ms.)
• Norway (Mr.)
• Canada (Ms.)
• Japan (Mr.)
• Philippines (Ms.)
• Iraq (Mr.)
• Germany (Mr.)
• Chile (Ms.)
• Switzerland (Ms.)
• Cuba (Ms.)
• Viet Nam (Mr.)
• Bulgaria (Ms.)
• Spain (Mr.)
• France (Mr.)
• United Kingdom (Ms.)
• Bangladesh (Mr.)
• Austria (Mr.)
• Hungary (Mr.)
• Brazil (Mr.)
• Niger (Ms.)
• Turkey (Mr.)
• New Zealand (Ms.)
• Sweden (Mr.)
• Ireland (Mr.)
• Iran (Mr.)
• Equatorial Guinea (Mr.)
• Costa Rica (Ms.)
• Italy (Mr.)
• Kazakhstan (Mr.)
• Peru (Mr.)
• Austria, on behalf of Brazil, Costa Rica, Ireland, Indonesia, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, and Thailand (Mr.)

Friday, 3 May

CLUSTER I  

Specific issue–Nuclear disarmament and negative security assurances 

• United States (Mr.)
• Syria (Mr.)
• Non-Aligned Movement (Mr.)
• Russia (Mr.)
• South Africa (Ms.)
• Cuba (Ms.)
• Japan (Mr.)
• Malaysia (Mr.)
• France (Ms.)
• Brazil (Mr.)
• China (Mr.)
• Iran (Mr.)

 CLUSTER II

• Non-Aligned Movement, delivered by Indonesia (Mr.)
• African Group, delivered by Nigeria (Ms.)
• Arab Group, delivered by Mauritania (Mr.)
• European Union (Mr.)
• Republic of Korea (Mr.)
• Argentina (Mr.)
• South Africa (Mr.)
• United States (Mr.)
• Singapore (Mr.)
• Lebanon (Ms.)
• China (Mr.)
• Italy (Mr.)
• Switzerland (Ms.)
• Australia (Ms.)
• Kuwait (Mr.)
• Belgium (Mr.)
• Canada (Ms.)
• Thailand (Ms.)
• Poland (Mr.)
• Netherlands (Ms.)
• Germany (Mr.)
• Austria (Mr.)
• Ireland (Ms.)
• Qatar (Mr.)
• Philippines (Ms.)
• Ukraine (Mr.)
• Japan (Mr.)
• France (Ms.)
• Jordan (Ms.)
• Guatemala (Ms.)
• Nigeria (Ms.)
• Hungary (Ms.)
• Ghana (Mr.)
• Czech Republic (Mr.)
• Indonesia (Mr.)
• Brazil (Mr.)
• Romania (Mr.)
• Turkey (Mr.)
• United Kingdom (Mr.)
• Algeria (Mr.)
• Malaysia (Mr.)
• Kazakhstan (Mr.)
• New Zealand (Mr.)
• Sweden (Ms.)
• Cuba (Ms.)
• Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control (ABAAC) (Ms.)
• Russia (Mr.)
• Spain (Mr.)

Monday, 6 May

Cluster II 

• Venezuela (Ms.)
• Syria (Mr.)
• Saudi Arabia (Mr.)
• Mexico (Ms.)
• Norway (Ms.)
• Iran (Mr.)

Specific issue–Regional issues, including with respect to the Middle East and implementation of the 1995 Middle East Resolution

• Non-Aligned Movement, delivered by Indonesia (Mr.)
• Arab Group, delivered by Mauritania (Mr.)
• Cuba (Ms.)
• Qatar (Mr.)
• France (Mr.)
• United Kingdom (Mr.)
• Malaysia (Mr.)
• Russia (Mr.)
• African Group, delivered by Nigeria (Mr.)
• European Union (Ms.)
• China (Mr.)
• Iran (Mr.)
• Algeria (Mr.)
• Iraq (Mr.)
• Switzerland (Ms.)
• Brazil (Mr.)
• League of Arab States (Mr.)
• Japan (Mr.)
• South Africa (Mr.)
• United States (Mr.)
• Kuwait (Mr.)
• Syria (Mr.)
• Venezuela (Ms.)
• Italy (Mr.)
• Japan (Mr.)
• Russia (Mr.)
• China (Mr.)

Cluster III

• Non-Aligned Movement, delivered by Indonesia (Mr.)
• European Union (Mr.)
• African Group, delivered by Nigeria (Mr.)
• Arab Group, delivered by Mauritania (Mr.)
• France, on behalf of Brazil, Egypt, and the Netherlands (Ms.)
• Brazil (Mr.)
• Cuba (Ms.)
• Qatar (Ms.)
• Republic of Korea (Mr.)
• Netherlands (Ms.)
• South Africa (Ms.)
• Australia (Ms.)
• Finland (Mr.)
• Canada (Mr.)
• Switzerland (Ms.)
• Italy (Mr.)
• Russia (Mr.)
• Niger (Mr.)
• Ukraine (Mr.)
• Argentina (Mr.)
• Germany (Mr.)
• Poland (Mr.)
• Philippines (Mr.) 
• France (Mr.)
• Norway (Mr.)

Tuesday, 7 May

• Nigeria (Ms.)
• Czech Republic (Mr.)
• Kazakhstan (Mr.)
• Kuwait (Ms.)
• United States (Mr.)
• Malaysia (Mr.)
• Algeria (Mr.)
• Thailand (Mr.)
• Ireland (Ms.)
• Guatemala (Ms.)
• Turkey (Mr.)
• Iran (Mr.)
• United Arab Emirates (Mr.)
• Romania (Mr.)
• Costa Rica (Mr.)
• Viet Nam (Mr.)
• Spain (Mr.)
• Hungary (Mr.)
• China (Mr.)
• New Zealand (Mr.)
• Bulgaria (Ms.)
• United Kingdom (Mr.)
• Mexico (Mr.)
• Indonesia (Mr.)
• Ghana (Mr.)
• Belgium (Ms.)
• Bangladesh (Mr.)
• Chile (Mr.)
• Japan (Mr.)
• Iraq (Mr.)
• Sweden (Ms.)
• Ecuador (Ms.)
• Syria (Mr.)

Specific issue—Improving the effectiveness of the strengthened review process

• Netherlands on behalf of 48 states (Ms.)
• Japan (Mr.)
• United States (Mr.)
• Ireland (Ms.)
• Switzerland (Mr.)
• United Kingdom (Mr.)
• Russia (Mr.)
• Netherlands (Ms.)
• Iran (Mr.)
• Poland (Mr.)
• South Africa (Mr.)

Specific issue—Peaceful uses of nuclear energy and other provisions of the Treaty

• United States (Mr.)

Continued consideration of the Chair's Draft Recommendations

Informal discussion

Consideration and adoption of the Draft Final Report

Informal discussion

Friday, 10 May

Continued consideration of the Chair's Draft Recommendations

Informal discussion

Any other matters

• United States, on behalf of a Group of states (Mr.)
• France, on behalf of 70 states (Mr.)

Closing remarks