NGO Analysis of the NPT

Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

Conference on Disarmament

General Assembly First Committee

UN Disarmament Commission

Special Session on Disarmament

NGO Analysis of the NPT

Listed below are non-governmental organizations reports and analysis of the documents to come out of the Preparatory Committee meetings in 1997, 1998, 1999, which are relevant to the Review Conference, April 24 - May 19, 2000.

1995 Review and Extension Conference

http://www.acronym.org.uk/acro7.htm (ACRONYM 7, Indefinite Extension of the Non-Proliferation Treaty: Risks and Reckonings

http://www.greanpeace.org/%7Eintlaw/npt-law.html (Greenpeace legal analysis of extension)

1997 Preparatory Committee Meeting (PrepCom)

BEFORE
http://www.acronym.org.uk/13launch.htm (Launching an Effective Review Process of the NPT in April 1997, Rebecca Johnson)
http://www.acronym.org.uk/13npt.htm (A New Beginning for the NPT by Joseph Cirincione)

AFTER
http://www.acronym.org.uk/14prep.htm (1997 PrepCom report Rebecca Johnson)
http://www.acronym.org.uk/15npt.htm (Report of 1997 PrepCom) Ben Sanders
http://www.acronym.org.uk/14npt.htm (Using the NPT to advance nuclear disarmament - by former U.S. Ambassador Jonathan Dean)

1998 Preparatory Committee Meeting (PrepCom)

BEFORE
http://www.acronym.org.uk/a11exec.htm (Executive Summary, ACRONYM 11 Reviewing the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Preparing for the Future, Rebecca Johnson)
http://www.acronym.org.uk/a11pt1.htm (Part 1, ACRONYM 11, From 1970 to 1998)
http://www.acronym.org.uk/a11pt2.htm (from ACRONYM 11 Some Questions and Proposals for Strengthening the Non-Proliferation Regime)

http://www.lcnp.org/disarmament/Article6.htm (Rearmament is Disarmament?, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy)

AFTER
http://www.acronym.org.uk/25npt.htm (The 1998 PrepCom: Summary and Snapshots, Rebecca Johnson)
http://www.acronym.org.uk/acro12.htm (ACRONYM 12 Reviewing the Non-Proliferation Treaty: Problems and Processes, Rebecca Johnson)

1999 Preparatory Committee Meeting (PrepCom)

BEFORE
http://www.acronym.org.uk/36prep.htm (The 1999 PrepCom: Substantive Issues, Rebecca Johnson)
http://www.acronym.org.uk/33npt.htm (Use 1999 To Rescue The NPT Review Process, Rebecca Johnson)

http://www.ceip.org/programs/nnp/dhanapala/htm (The NPT Internal and External Challenges, UN Undersecretary for Disarmament Affairs Jayantha Dhanapala, Carnegie Conference)

http://www.nyu.edu/globalbeat/nuclear/Raud0399.html (Tariq Rauf & John Simpson, The 1999 NPT PrepCom)

DURING
http://www.acronym.org.uk/nptdesc.htm (Briefings from the ACRONYM Institute on the 3rd NPT PrepCom

AFTER
http://www.acronym.org.uk/37npt.htm (The NPT Third PrepCom: What Happened and How, Rebecca Johnson)

http://www.lcnp.org/disarmament/npt report.htm (Jim Wurst, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy)

PREPARING FOR THE 2000 REVIEW CONFERENCE

http://www.acronym.org.uk/41npt.htm (preparing for 2000 Review)
http://www.acronym.org.uk/36judo.htm (Using the NPT to Make the Nuclear-Weapons States Negotiate the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons)