Statement of the Algerian Delegation at the Closing Plenary Session
of the Seventh NPT Review Conference
New York, May 27th, 2005
Mr. President,
My delegation would like to express its appreciation to you as
well as to the chairpersons of the Main Committees for the valuable
work undertaken throughout the last four weeks in order to achieve
the best possible outcome to our meeting.
My delegation wishes also to associate itself with the statement
made by the Ambassador of Malaysia on behalf of NAM States Parties
to the NPT.
Mr. President,
Algeria notes with deep regret that, given the numerous challenges
and threats facing the nonproliferation Treaty and despite the efforts
made by all participants, the Conference was not able to meet the
expectations off all of us.
In deed, Algeria would have wished to see the Conference reaching
a more substantive outcome that would have allowed us to carry an
effective review process of the NPT and provided States Parties
with the necessary tools and the framework to face the threats challenging
the Treaty and to pursue the cause of nuclear disarmament.
It is with an open and constructive spirit and with the ambition
to contribute to an outcome that would reflect our determination
to pursue the objectives of the Treaty and its full implementation
that my country took part to the 7th Review Conference of the NPT.
In this, we were guided by our longstanding commitment to the NPT
as the cornerstone of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation
as well as by achievements of the 1995 and 2000 review Conferences.
Mr. President,
As we are getting to end of this Conference, Algeria wishes to
reiterate its full commitment to the Treaty and expresses its determination
to spare no effort with States Parties to preserve this essential
instrument and its three pillars that are nuclear disarmament, nuclear
nonproliferation and peaceful use of nuclear energy.
Algeria strongly believes that the only way to preserve the authority
and the credibility of the NPT is to pursue the full implementation
of all its provisions and to ensure its effective universality.
We remain hopeful that States Parties will continue to show the
necessary political will to allow better prospects and conditions
for concrete progress in the review process of the Treaty. In this
regard, we look forward to the 2010 Review Conference and its preparatory
process to start in 2007.
Mr. President,
In conclusion, I would like to emphasize that nuclear weapons are
and will continue to be the most dangerous threat to all mankind;
their elimination must, therefore, remain the main objective we
ought to achieve.
