June 23, p6

The 2015 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, a forum set up every five years to review the progress of NPT commitments, ended last week without adopting an outcome document.

This is the fifth time the conference has failed to reach an agreement on an outcome document since it came into force in 1970.

The failure of the NPT Review Conference is due to the rejection by the US, the United Kingdom and Canada of the final draft of the outcome document, particularly on the convening of a regional conference on the Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone. (By Yunizar Adiputera, Yogyakarta)

Your comments:

Ironically, the future of NPT and nuclear disarmament is dark because of the very state that likes to own the concepts.

The so-called global guardian, the US, is in one way or another imposing the nuclear arms race and instability by modernizing nuclear weapons to counter Russia and by giving India the unnecessary nuclear privileges to counter China.

Anaya Shahid

The failure of the NPT review conference, which took place 70 years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is highly regrettable, especially in view of the achievements at the previous meeting held in 2010.

A 64-point action plan adopted in the 2010 conference said, among other things, that '€œthe nuclear weapons states commit to undertake further efforts to reduce and ultimately eliminate all types of nuclear weapons, deployed and non-deployed, including through unilateral, bilateral, regional and multilateral measures.'€

Yet the desire for a nuclear-free world is still unacceptable to global powers.

Aazar Kund

The road to a nuclear-free world, however, is a long way off. The main question on NPT will always remain, and that is, how should the NPT signatories deal with the non-member states Israel, India and Pakistan?

Andy San

The NPT was to be the cornerstone for disarmament, arms control and the peaceful prevention of the further proliferation of nuclear weapons, a role that the treaty is clearly failing to fulfill. It is no longer fruitful to wait and hope that the political will appears to make the NPT a workable and effective regime.

It is time, instead, to realize how and why the regime is not working and what countries bear responsibility for the treaty'€™s ineffectiveness.

It would be advisable for the international atomic energy agency (IAEA) to draft an alternate safeguard agreement that would be irreversible for states choosing to withdraw from the NPT. As a means of reinforcing this action, the united nations security council (UNSC) needs to adopt a resolution that would restrict non-compliant states from withdrawing from the NPT if it is perceived as a threat to international security.

It is now a matter for governments to determine how to proceed with these proposals.

Briella

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