The IAEA has a central role in combating nuclear proliferation.

The IAEA is a unique international institution vested with powers to assess States' compliance with their nuclear non proliferation obligations within the framework of the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

The IAEA Director General has also called for the inclusion of three non NPT nuclear States in future talks on non proliferation and disarmament.

The international safeguards system of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is a fundamental pillar of the nuclear non proliferation regime.

With regard to non proliferation, the IAEA system of international safeguards was an indispensable component of the global non proliferation regime, and its verification authority must therefore be strengthened.

It reflects the important role the IAEA plays in nuclear non proliferation.

Such a committee should consider extending the Agency's verification activities to all nuclear weapon States, so that both vertical and horizontal proliferation could be controlled.

As a non nuclear weapon State and a party to the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), Armenia attaches great importance to the Agency's activities on the further improvement of the non proliferation regime and nuclear verification.

The IAEA safeguards system was an indispensable instrument within the NPT and must be strengthened.

We reaffirm the role of the IAEA in the verification of commitments to non proliferation.

With the increasing challenges posed by nuclear proliferation, coupled with the rise of nuclear power as an energy source, strict conformity to the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and to the Agency's safeguards obligations are crucial.

Protocol Additional to the Agreement between the Eastern Republic of Uruguay and the International Atomic Energy Agency for the Application of Safeguards in connection with the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

The international safeguards system of the IAEA is an essential part of this global nuclear non proliferation regime.

(f) The Review Conference should endorse the IAEA instruments on nuclear security and non proliferation.

The call for those States remaining outside the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) to accede to it and to accept International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards on all their nuclear activities is at variance with that principle.

But it is essential that they do so in full accordance with the NPT and under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

The fight against proliferators should be consolidated it is important that the goals and principles of the initiative are supported by as many countries as possible, thereby reducing the proliferators' options for attaining their objectives.

In this context, Japan stresses the necessity of strengthening the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards system, which plays a vital role in underpinning the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

The Code considers the question of proliferation from one particular perspective, and thus fails to address the reasons for such proliferation.

The European Union recalls the conditions laid down by the NPT for the exercise of the right to nuclear energy which is opened up by Article IV the observance of non proliferation commitments, the implementation of IAEA safeguards and the pursuit, in accordance with the good faith principle, of peaceful purposes.

His delegation urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to rejoin the NPT and abide by its non proliferation obligations, including full cooperation with the IAEA.

Ireland believes that the vital role played by the IAEA safeguards system in the global non proliferation regime must be acknowledged and reinforced during the 2005 NPT Review Conference.

Nevertheless, it called on both States to accede to the NPT and submit their nuclear facilities to IAEA surveillance.

The NPT, however, can avail itself of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for the verification of some of its commitments.

The Treaty had enabled IAEA to establish the basis for international cooperation in peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

It refuses to join the Non Proliferation Treaty and to submit its nuclear facilities to IAEA safeguards.

Japan considers international frameworks, such as the NPT, the CTBT, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards agreements and Additional Protocols, the Biological Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention, to be of the utmost importance as a basis for international disarmament and non proliferation efforts.

Based as it was on a balance among the three pillars of disarmament, non proliferation and the peaceful use of atomic energy, the disarmament thrust of the Treaty was as important as ever. It was also true, however, that the proliferation crisis had become urgent.

The NPT stipulates the IAEA safeguards as an objective guarantee of the non diversion to prohibited activities.

Also, States not party to the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons should be urged to enter into comprehensive safeguards agreements with the Agency.

The Group urges States Parties to the Treaty to maintain and strengthen the technical character of IAEA consistent with the role defined for it in the statute.

Khan and the Limits of the Non proliferation Regime, IAEA Safeguards and the NPT, Voluntary action in the fight against weapons of mass destruction and Contextualizing past, present and future challenges to the NPT regime were written by Rebecca Johnson, George Perkovich, Christopher Clary, Ben Sanders, Rose Gottemoeller and Rhianna Tyson.

Peaceful application of nuclear energy was recognized in the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency well before the conclusion of the NPT.

This principle particularly applies to the field of nuclear disarmament and non proliferation.

Latvia considers the IAEA safeguards system as an essential mechanism of verifying compliance with the obligations of the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

Japan has contributed to the reinforcement of IAEA safeguards measures, a verification mechanism in the area of nuclear non proliferation.

The States members of CSTO stress the importance of objective consideration of NPT, encompassing its three basic components non proliferation, cooperation in the peaceful use of atomic energy and nuclear disarmament.

We also welcome the commitments made by North Korea to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programmes and to return, at an early date, to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and IAEA safeguards.

Implementation of the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and paragraph 4 (c) of the 1995 decision on Principles and Objectives for Nuclear Non Proliferation and Disarmament

The IAEA safeguards system should be strengthened and the additional protocol should be adopted as the new non proliferation standard.

GC(48) RES 15 Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement between the Agency and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Non proliferation under the Treaty should be strengthened by increasing the capacity of IAEA to detect any misuse of nuclear fuel.

The Group of Non Aligned States Parties to the Treaty stresses the importance of the IAEA safeguards system.

Pursuing terrorists or proliferators requires a cross border response.

Implementation of article VI of the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and paragraph 4 (c) of the 1995 decision on Principles and Objectives for Nuclear Non Proliferation and Disarmament