Seven Nation Draft Outcome Text for Millenium + 5 Summit

Endorsed by the governments of Australia, Chile, Indonesia, Norway, Romania, South Africa and the United Kingdom.

1. We affirm that nuclear non-proliferation, continued progress on nuclear disarmament and the peaceful uses of nuclear energy are all vital and impose responsibilities on all States. We appeal to all States to pursue and intensify negotiations with a view to preventing proliferation, achieving a world free of nuclear weapons, and strengthening the international non-proliferation regime through full compliance with all of their obligations.

2. We urge all States to accede to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the Chemical Weapons Convention, and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. We pledge to comply fully with all the articles of these conventions; to ensure the integrity of these conventions; and to reinvigorate the multilateral framework for non-proliferation and disarmament.

3. We resolve therefore to:

A. Take urgent action to eliminate the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction;

B. Pursue practical, systematic and progressive efforts to advance disarmament globally and reduce nuclear weapons towards achieving a world free of nuclear weapons, including through greater security and transparency of fissile material holdings for all States;

C. Ensure the soonest commencement in the Conference on Disarmament of negotiations without preconditions on a treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices. Pending entry into force of such a Treaty we urge all nuclear weapon States and the States not party to the NPT to apply a moratorium on the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices;

D. Maintain a moratorium on nuclear test explosions pending the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty; support completion of the International Monitoring System for the Preparatory Commission of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization; and call on States to sign and ratify the Treaty;

E. Strengthen verification to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards, and to this end call on all states that have not yet done so to conclude and implement relevant Safeguards Agreements and Additional Protocols without delay;

F. Support and continue to work with all prospective States parties and other countries engaged in the region towards the establishment of nuclear-weapon-free zones in order to prevent proliferation and advance disarmament;

G. Prohibit any non-State actor to develop, acquire, manufacture, possess, transport, transfer or use nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and their means of delivery, including by criminalizing such acts and establishing and enforcing appropriate effective control measures in accordance with UN Security Council resolution 1540; and also to seek early ratification of the amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, and to encourage those States that have not already done so to promptly accede to the Convention and ratify its amendment;

H. Fully respect the inalienable right to peaceful uses of nuclear energy, under the framework of the NPT, and urge timely agreement to establish mechanisms to ensure guaranteed access to the market for nuclear fuel and related services for States in compliance with their non-proliferation obligations and safeguards obligations under the NPT, as determined by the IAEA. We welcome the report of the IAEA Director General's Expert Group on Multilateral Approaches to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, and resolve to support all efforts to identify and develop a consensus solution that provides assurances of both supply of services and non-proliferation;

I. Explore for consideration in the Conference on Disarmament effective measures for the prevention of an arms race in outer space.