Annual NPT Meeting Begins Next Week

Parties to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty are scheduled to begin meeting Monday in the last annual session before next year’s review conference (see GSN, May 9, 2003). 

Representatives at the two-week “preparatory committee” meeting in New York are expected to “consider issues affecting the purpose, operation and implementation of the treaty and agree on strengthening measures to be approved at the treaty’s upcoming review conference in 2005,” according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei said in a prepared statement he hoped next year’s session would lead to agreement “on a specific course of action that will help re-engineer the nuclear nonproliferation regime and revive the stalling nuclear arms control and disarmament process” (see GSN, Feb. 12; IAEA release, April 22).

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