Statements to the 2024 NPT Preparatory Committee

Opening and General Statements
Civil Society Presentations
Cluster 1
Cluster 1 Specific Issue
Cluster 2

Opening and General Statements 

Monday, 22 July 2024

• UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu (Ms.)
• Chair of the Second Session of the NPT Preparatory Committee, Ambassador Akan Rakhmetullin of Kazakhstan (Mr.)
• Chair of the Third Session of the NPT Preparatory Committee, Akosua Dedaa Okyere-Badoo of Ghana (Ms.)
• Japan (Mr.)
• International Atomic Energy Agency (Mr.)
• Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (Mr.)
• Non-Aligned Movement, delivered by Uganda (Mr.)
• European Union (Mr.)
• Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative, delivered by the Philippines (Mr.)
• New Agenda Coalition, delivered by Aotearoa/New Zealand (Ms.)
• Baltic States, delivered by Estonia (Mr.)
• Arab Group, delivered by Iraq (Mr.)
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations, delivered by the Philippines (Mr.)
• States Parties to the Treaty on the Creation of a Union State of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation, delivered by Belarus (Ms.)
• States Parties to the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty, delivered by Aotearoa/New Zealand (Mr.)
• Vienna Group of Ten, delivered by Australia (Ms.)
• African Group, delivered by Sierra Leone (Mr.)
• States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, delivered by Kazakhstan (Mr.)
• Group of 50 States and the European Union, delivered by Ukraine (Ms.)
• States Parties to the Treaty on a Nuclear Weapon Free Zone in Central Asia, delivered by Tajikistan (Mr.)
• Joint Statement on the Legacy of Nuclear Weapons, delivered by Kiribati (Mr.)
• Thailand (Ms.)
• Iraq (Mr.)
• Austria (Ms.)
• Sweden (Ms.)
• Canada (Ms.)
• Netherlands (Mr.)
• United States (Mr.)
• Brazil (Mr.)
• Cuba (Mr.)
• South Africa (Mr.)
• Portugal (Mr.)
• Mexico (Ms.)
• Slovenia (Mr.)
• Czechia (Mr.)
• Belgium (Mr.)
• France (Ms.)
• Bulgaria (Mr.)
• Australia (Ms.)
• Russia (Mr.) - right of reply
• Iran (Mr.) - right of reply
• United States (Mr.) - right of reply
• Czechia (Mr.) - right of reply
• Belarus (Mr.) - right of reply
• Lithuania (Ms.) - right of reply

Tuesday, 23 July 2024

• Russia (Mr.)
• Egypt (Mr.)
• Philippines (Mr.)
• Aotearoa New Zealand (Ms.)
• United Kingdom (Mr.)
• Burkina Faso (Mr.)
• Spain (Ms.)
• Holy See (Mr.)
• Kazakhstan (Mr.)
• Malaysia (Mr.)
• Syria (Mr.)
• Finland (Mr.)
• Germany (Ms.)
• Denmark (Ms.)
• Colombia (Mr.)
• Ireland (Mr.)
• China (Mr.)
• Chile (Mr.)
• Sri Lanka (Ms.)
• Argentina (Mr.)
• Namibia (Ms.)
• Norway (Mr.)
• Switzerland (Mr.)
• Samoa (Ms.)
• Türkiye (Mr.)
• Iran (Mr.)
• Republic of Korea (Ms.)
• Poland (Mr.)
• Ethiopia (Mr.)
• Japan (Mr.) - right of reply
• Netherlands (Mr.) - right of reply
• Australia (Ms.) - right of reply
• Belgium (Mr.) - right of reply
• Iran (Mr.) - right of reply
• Lithuania (Mr.) - right of reply
• Italy (Mr.) - right of reply
• Ukraine (Ms.) - right of reply
• China (Mr.) - right of reply
• Germany (Mr.) - right of reply
• Bulgaria (Mr.) - right of reply
• Russia (Mr.) - right of reply
• Belarus (Mr.) - right of reply
• China (Mr.) - right of reply
• Germany (Mr.) - right of reply
• Lithuania (Mr.) - right of reply

Wednesday, 24 July 2024

• Indonesia (Mr.)
• Venezuela (Ms.)
• Malta (Mr.)
• Tunisia (Mr.)
• Lebanon (Mr.)
• Romania (Mr.)
• Armenia (Mr.)
• Slovakia (Mr.)
• Kiribati (Mr.)
• Belarus (Mr.)
• Saudi Arabia (Mr.)
• Singapore (Mr.)
• Jordan (Mr.)
• Oman (Mr.)
• Kuwait (Mr.)
• Mozambique (Mr.)
• Nigeria (Mr.)
• United Arab Emirates (Mr.)
• Bangladesh (Mr.)
• Peru (Ms.)
• Italy (Mr.)
• Malawi (Mr.)
• Paraguay (Ms.)
• Dominican Republic (Ms.)
• Zimbabwe (Mr.)
• Kenya (Mr.)
• Hungary (Mr.)
• Algeria (Mr.)
• Ecuador (Ms.)
• Senegal (Ms.)
• Greece (Ms.)
• Viet Nam (Mr.)
• Lao People's Democratic Republic (Mr.)
• Timor Leste (Ms.)
• Panama (Ms.)
• Ghana (Ms.)
• Costa Rica (Mx.)
• Uruguay (Mr.)
• El Salvador (Mr.)
• Vanuatu (Mr.)
• Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL) (Mr.)
• Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) (Mr.)
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (Mr.)
• Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC) (Mr.)
• African Commission on Nuclear Energy (AFCONE) (Mr.)

Civil Society Presentations

Tuesday, 23 July 2024

• Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo), delivered by KODAMA Michiko (Ms.)
• Japan Council against A and H Bombs (Gensuikyo), delivered by Yayoi Fujita (Tsuchida) (Ms.)
• Mayors for Peace, Hiroshima, delivered by MATSUI Kazumi (Mr.)
• Mayors for Peace, Nagasaki, delivered by SUZUKI Shiro (Mr.)
• Threats to the NPT including nuclear proliferation, nuclear sharing and nuclear spending, delivered by Naomi Zoka on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) (Ms.)
• Nuclear Frontline Communities’ Statement on the Nuclear Legacy, delivered by Benetick Kabua Maddison, Marshallese Educational Initiative (Mr.)
• Breaking the Impasse on Disarmament and Implementing Article VI Obligations, delivered by Daryl Kimball, Arms Control Association (Mr.)
• Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, delivered by Ivana Nikolić Hughes (Ms.)
• International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, delivered by Molly McGinty (Ms.)
• Gender and Intersectionality, delivered by Ray Acheson, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Mx.)
• Middle East Treaty Organisation, delivered by Sharon Dolev (Ms.) and Emad Kiyaei (Ms.)
• Project Ploughshares, delivered by Cesar Jaramillo (Mr.)
• Disarmament Diplomacy Reset, delivered by Jacqueline Cabasso on behalf of the Coordinating Committee of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons (Ms.)
• Turn Back the Doomsday Clock: Proposals for Nuclear Risk-Reduction and Disarmament, delivered by Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer, Member of the House of Lords, on behalf of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (Ms.)
• Nuclear-risk reduction, no-first-use and the inadmissibility of the threat or use of nuclear weapons, delivered by Bill Kidd MSP on behalf of NoFirstUse Global and the Abolition 2000 Working Group on Nuclear-Risk-Reduction (Mr.)
• Strengthening the Authority, Integrity and Effectiveness of NPT, delivered by Amb. CHENG Jingye, China Arms Control and Disarmament Association (Mr.)
• Joint Civil Society Statement on AUKUS, delivered by Thomas Huckans on behalf of ICAN Australia (Mr.)
• Can Common Security replace Nuclear Deterrence, delivered by Alyn Ware on behalf of the World Federalist Movement (Mr.)
• Pursuing Peace, Security and Nuclear Disarmament through our Common Humanity, delivered by Ayleen Roy, Transnational Working Group on Faith, Values-Based Perspectives and Global Governance (Ms.)
• Joint Youth Statement, delivered by Bobby Verhey (Mr.) and Pranathi Chintalapudi (Ms.), Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and Reverse The Trend
• Nuclear and Radiological Disinformation, delivered by Elin Bergner on behalf of the Global Partnership Countering WMD Disinformation Initiative (Ms.)
• Indigenous World Association, delivered by Ronald Barnes (Mr.) and Petuuche Gilbert (Mr.)

Cluster 1: Nuclear Disarmament

Wednesday, 24 July 2024

• Non-Aligned Movement, delivered by Indonesia (Mr.)
• European Union (Ms.)
• Joint Statement on Irreversibility, delivered by Norway (Mr.)
• New Agenda Coalition, delivered by Aotearoa New Zealand (Ms.)
• Arab Group, delivered by Iraq (Ms.)
• African Group, delivered by Sierra Leone (Mr.)
• Aotearoa New Zealand, Ireland, and Switzerland delivered by Switzerland (Mr.)
• Stockholm Initiative, delivered by Argentina (Mr.)
• United States (Mr.)
• Morocco (Ms.)
• South Africa (Mr.)
• Philippines (Ms.)
• Norway (Mr.)
• Kazakhstan (Mr.)
• Republic of Korea (Ms.)
• Switzerland (Mr.)
• Netherlands (Mr.)
• Kiribati (Mr.)
• Russia (Mr.) - right of reply
• Belarus (Mr.) - right of reply 

Thursday, 25 July 2024

• Sweden (Ms.)
• Canada (Mr.)
• Germany (Ms.)
• Ireland (Mr.)
• Aotearoa New Zealand (Ms.)
• Belgium (Mr.)
• United Kingdom (Mr.)
• Thailand (Ms.)
• Finland (Ms.)
• Russia (Mr.)
• Peru (Mr.)
• Nigeria (Mr.)
• Mexico (Ms.)
• France (Ms.)
• Bulgaria (Mr.)
• Brazil (Mr.)
• Austria (Mr.)
• Iran (Mr.)
• Hungary (Mr.)
• Japan (Ms.)
• Cuba (Ms.)
• Türkiye (Ms.)
• Spain (Mr.)
• Indonesia (Mr.)
• Malaysia (Mr.)
• Australia (Ms.)
• Kuwait (Ms.)
• China (Mr.)
• Iraq (Ms.)
• Chile (Mr.)
• Algeria (Mr.)
• Poland (Mr.)
• Argentina (Mr.)
• Italy (Mr.)
• Egypt (Mr.)
• Singapore (Mr.)
• Ukraine (Mr.)
• Saudi Arabia (Mr.)
• Panama (Ms.)
• Colombia (Mr.)

Cluster 1 Specific Issue: Nuclear disarmament and security assurances 

• Non-Aligned Movement, delivered by Indonesia (Mr.)
• United States (Mr.)
• South Africa (Ms.)
• Japan (Ms.)
• China (Mr.)
• France and United Kingdom, delivered by France (Ms.)
• France (Ms.)
• Russia (Mr.)
• Iraq (Ms.)
• Malaysia (Mr.)
• Iran (Mr.)
• Indonesia (Mr.)
• Cuba (Ms.)
• Philippines (Ms.)
• Kiribati (Mr.)
• Republic of Korea (Mr.)
• Brazil (Mr.)
• Syria (Mr.)

Cluster 2: Non-Proliferation 

• Non-Aligned Movement, delivered by Indonesia (Mr.)
• European Union (Mr.)
• Arab Group, delivered by Iraq (Ms.)
• African Group, delivered by Sierra Leone (Mr.)
• Philippines (Mr.)
• Norway (Mr.)
• Kazakhstan (Mr.)
• Republic of Korea (Ms.)
• Finland (Mr.) - right of reply 
• Ukraine (Mr.) - right of reply 
• France (Ms.) - right of reply
• Russia (Mr.) - right of reply
• United States (Ms.) - right of reply
• Canada (Mr.) - right of reply 
• Denmark (Mr.) - right of reply 
• Czechia (Mr.) - right of reply 
• China (Mr.) - right of reply 
• Russia (Mr.) - right of reply

Friday, 26 July 2024

• Switzerland (Mr.)
• South Africa (Ms.)
• Canada (Ms.)
• Netherlands (Mr.)
• Ireland (Mr.)
• Egypt (Mr.)
• United States (Mr.)
• Peru (Mr.)
• Aotearoa New Zealand (Mr.)
• Belgium (Mr.)
• Iran (Mr.)
• United Kingdom (Mr.)
• Thailand (Ms.)
• Nigeria (Mr.)
• Kiribati (Mr.)
• Russia (Mr.)
• Mexico (Mr.)
• Brazil (Mr.)
• France (Ms.)
• Joint statement addressing the North Korean nuclear challenge, delivered by France (Ms.)
• Austria (Mr.)
• Hungary (Mr.)
• Cuba (Ms.)
• Türkiye (Ms.)
• Spain (Ms.)
• Malaysia (Ms.)
• Germany (Ms.)
• Indonesia (Mr.)
• Australia (Ms.)
• Kuwait (Mr.)
• Japan (Mr.)
• China (Mr.)
• Iraq (Ms.)
• Chile (Mr.)
• Algeria (Mr.)
• Poland (Mr.)
• Saudi Arabia (Mr.)
• Argentina (Mr.)
• Sweden (Ms.)
• Ukraine (Mr.)
• United Arab Emirates (Mr.)
• Italy (Mr.)
• Panama (Ms.)
• Syria (Mr.)
• Colombia (Mr.)
• United Kingdom (Mr.) - right of reply
• Poland (Mr.) - right of reply
• Philippines (Mr.) - right of reply
• Iran (Mr.) - right of reply
• Russia (Mr.) - right of reply
• Republic of Korea (Mr.) - right of reply
• France (Ms.) - right of reply