Tenth NPT Review Conference: Why It Was Doomed and How It Almost Succeeded

24 October 2022 • 
Commentary, Disarmament, Non-Proliferation, Publications
In the October 2022 issue of the Arms Control Today magazine, Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova discusses how the Tenth Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) came close to adopting a final document and why it ultimately failed to do so.
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Gustavo Zlauvinen (Seated, Center) of Argentina, president of the 10th review conference of the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, presides as Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida addresses the conference at the UN on August 1. (Photo by Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

In the October 2022 issue of the Arms Control Today magazine, Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova discusses how the Tenth Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) came close to adopting a final document and why it ultimately failed to do so. She argues that Russia had likely concluded early that there would be no common ground on references to its war against Ukraine and occupation of nuclear facilities, but waited to see if disagreements on other issues would prevent consensus.  She reviews key points of the disarmament debates at the conference and warns that States Parties’ repeated inability to meaningfully review implementation and take forward existing commitments undermines the review process.

 

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