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.

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

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That is why we aspire to the objective of universalizing the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

The NPT regime has therefore benefited all countries, including non NPT members.

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).

It is therefore essential first to remove the root cause of proliferation if we are serious about non proliferation.

The verification system of the NPT would thereby be strengthened, since all States would share responsibility for non proliferation.

The work of the 1540 Committee is a key element in our common endeavour to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction, including to terrorists and other non State actors.

Therefore it supported the International Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation and other regimes against such proliferation.

This is particularly important since the NPT represents the main instrument for stopping vertical and horizontal nuclear proliferation.

Pursuing terrorists or proliferators requires a cross border response.

So as it expands and as things expand what we have is the potential for differences, diversity, options, choices, opportunities, possibilities and freedoms.

It regarded the NPT as a key legal barrier to nuclear proliferation which made a critical contribution to international security.

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

On nuclear disarmament and non proliferation, the Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) will be held next month to review its implementation a very important conference, as the NPT regime faces serious challenges.

The common position covers a number of fundamental elements with regard to the three pillars of the NPT non proliferation, disarmament and peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

It is in that light that your forum was able to establish an effective regime of non proliferation of nuclear weapons by drawing up, as early as 1968, the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

Normative efforts to strengthen the non proliferation regime and a supply side approach based on export controls needed to be supplemented by a demand side approach that addressed the root causes of proliferation, which was often generated by regional conflicts and tensions.

Thanks to the NPT, however, this is not the case.

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.

Towards this end, Brunei Darussalam has become a party to the following international treaties and agreements aimed at curbing the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

As the cornerstone of the global non proliferation regime, the Treaty had helped to slow, and at times reverse the spread of military nuclear capability, but had not been able to prevent it completely.

Implementation of the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)

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The IAEA has a central role in combating nuclear proliferation.

The Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons remains the cornerstone of the non proliferation regime.

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.

As all delegations are aware, North Korea and Iran exemplify the alarming breakdown of compliance with the core non proliferation undertakings contained in articles II and III of the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) that we confront today from a small number of countries.

And as you see here, there are groups that are growing on top of each other, because they are spreading.

It spreads out to be really thin, so you have a hard time corralling it.

The Treaty is the first line of defence against the spread of nuclear weapons.

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The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

That example can be replicated in other areas of disarmament and non proliferation.

In doing so, PSI reflects the reality that, even as we continue to support and strengthen the existing non proliferation architecture, proliferators and those facilitating the procurement of deadly capabilities are circumventing existing laws, treaties, and controls against WMD proliferation.

The Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is a seminal instrument in the field of global, multilateral non proliferation.

It is currently impossible to separate the matters of vertical and horizontal proliferation.