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Stopping the spread of nuclear weapons

The growing consensus on the urgency of multilateral nuclear disarmament has breathed new life into efforts to secure a world free from nuclear weapons. A set of new forceful champions has driven this consensus.

In the US, four leading statesmen are spearheading the Nuclear Security Project.

In the UK, a top level group of British Parliamentarians has followed suit.

UNA-UK is working to embed cross-party support for the ‘six steps towards nuclear zero’ and to build consensus for these steps around the world. Click here to read more

2009

Lobby for the United Nations 2009-2010 (October 2009)

UNA-UK lobbies the UK government to support an IAEA budget increase (July 2009)

UNA-UK Annual Conference 2009 press release (June 2009)

UNA-UK Annual Conference 2009 policy document (June 2009)

Resolutions on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation issues are agreed by delegates at the WFUNA Plenary Assembly, an umbrella organisation of nearly 100 UNAs worldwide (June 2009)

UNA-UK is awarded a major five-year grant for work on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament (April 2009)

UNA-UK Edinburgh branch one day conference on the 2010 review of the non-proliferation treaty (April 2009)

2008

Andreas Persbo of VERTIC gives a presentation on the efforts to reinvigorate multilateral nuclear disarmament at the launch of the 'Lobby for the United Nations' 2008-2009
(October 2008)

Joint EDM with BASIC (July 2006)

Article in New World: Resurrecting Reykjavik: a new opportunity for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation (Spring 2008), Shirley Williams

UNA-UK Annual Conference 2008 policy document (June 2008)

2007

Letter written by UNA-UK Chair Lord Hannay of Chiswick to the Foreign Secretary (September 2007)

UNA-UK Annual Conference 2007 policy document (June 2007)

Associate partnership with Crisis Action (April 2007)

Rethink Trident campaign (March 2007)

Article in New World: UNA Edinburgh workshop (January 2007)

UNA Edinburgh workshop BBC Scotland (January 2007)

UNA Edinburgh workshop briefing notes (January 2007)

House of Lords debate: Armed forces nuclear deterrant (January 2007)

2006

Multilateral approaches to nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament: The NPT and contemporary threats (December 2006)

UNA-UK briefing note, 'The state of the nuclear non-proliferation regime: the NPT and the challenges ahead'.

UNA-UK briefing note, 'The oversight and enforcement mechanisms of the nuclear non-proliferation regime: the roles of the IAEA and the UN Security Council'. (December 2006)

UNA-UK briefing note, 'The NPT and the UK's nuclear strategy: the question of Trident'. (December 2006)

Article in New World: The Great Debate, the decision on Trident and the implications for NPT (November2006)

UNA-UK briefing note: The UN's role in stemming nuclear non proliferation (October 2006)

Article in New World:Trident and the NPT (January 2006)

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Key UN reference documents, click here >>>

Security Council Resolution 1696 (2006): On Non-Proliferation (Iran)

Security Council Resolution 1718 (2006): On Non-Proliferation (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)

UK Non-Paper on Enrichment Bonds: A Voluntary Scheme for Reliable Access to Nuclear Fuel (2006)

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan: Speech on Non-Proliferation (2006)

Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004): On Non-Proliferation (Non-State Actors)

Model Protocol Additional to the Agreement(s) between State(s) and the IAEA for the Application of Safeguards (1997)

Excerpt, ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Legality of Nuclear Weapons (1996)

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1968)

Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency (1957)

Other resources >>>

Green Paper: Decisions over the future of British Nuclear Weapons (British American Security Information Council, 2006)

Worse than Irrelevant? British Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century (Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, 2006)

WFUNA Disamament Hub

The World Federation of the United Nations Associations Global Disarmament Hub aims to engage students and young people in discussion of global disarmament issues. Visit:
www.DisarmamentHub.org

Find out about...

The Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons by clicking here

The International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's central institution for oversight and enforcement in the nuclear field, by clicking here

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