Washington P5 Conference on Implementing the NPT

About the Author: Rose Gottemoeller serves as Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.

On June 27-29, the State Department welcomed the other members of the P5 – China, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom – to discuss the implementation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). 

Senior policy and defense officials and technical staff from these four countries and the United States continued the dialogue that the permanent members of the UN Security Council – the P5 – are having to advance their nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament commitments under the 2010 NPT Review Conference’s Action Plan.

The Action Plan reflects the understanding that efforts to strengthen the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty must be balanced among the three pillars of the NPT: countries with nuclear weapons will move toward nuclear disarmament, countries without nuclear weapons will not acquire them, and all members in compliance with their nonproliferation… more »

(Source: blogs.state.gov)