Proliferation Treaty Quotes

• Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Commitment, Nuclear Disarmament, People

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). "A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat", p.130, I.B.Tauris

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• It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.

  Eisaku Sato

  Government, People, Office

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• Se nos ha hecho creer que hemos recorrido un largo camino hacia el desarme nuclear mundial. Pero no es así. Nuestro gobierno no está haciendo todo lo que podría. Debemos instar a nuestros dirigentes a que cumplan las obligaciones del Tratado de No Proliferación Nuclear. Estados Unidos debe asumir el liderazgo mundial para acabar de una vez por todas con la amenaza de la guerra nuclear. Es nuestra responsabilidad moral.

  Harrison Ford

  Guerra, Creer, Responsabilidad

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• The countries outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty also are bound by that obligation [ Article Six of the treaty] according to, at least it's a strong implication of, a 1996 opinion of the International Court of Justice.

  John Burroughs

  Country, Strong, Justice

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• The only countries that are outside of [ Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty] are Israel, Pakistan, India, and North Korea withdrew in the last few years.

  John Burroughs

  Country, Israel, Korea

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• There is an international treaty framework for this. It's the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Most countries in the world are members of the treaty.

  John Burroughs

  Country, Nuclear, World

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• It is also important to respect the fact that Iran is a signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, which treaty spells out the rights and obligations of signatures to the treaty and therefore that we can’t deny Iran the rights due to it as a signature of the NPT.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Rights, Iran, Important

  Interview with Lionel Barber, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

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• The court was unable to rule on all circumstances in which nuclear weapons might be used, and it said in view of the problems, the risks posed by nuclear weapons, and in view of the lack of certainty of the law in all circumstances, the best course is fulfilling the obligation of good faith negotiations of nuclear disarmament contained in the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

  John Burroughs

  Views, Law, Nuclear Disarmament

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• For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests.

  Susan Rice

  Nuclear Disarmament, United States, Nuclear Proliferation

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• It is the foremost responsibility of the United States, having been the predominant nuclear power, to take the lead in scaling this back and making good on its signed and sealed and ratified obligation in Article 6 of the non-proliferation treaty going back to '68 to eliminate this nuclear arsenal. That's a serious international obligation.

  George Lee Butler

  Responsibility, Nuclear, Serious

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• Uno de los [retos] más graves es el aumento del gasto militar y el coste de mantener y desarrollar arsenales nucleares. Se están consumiendo enormes recursos para estos fines, cuando podrían destinarse al desarrollo de los pueblos, especialmente de los más pobres. Por esta razón, espero firmemente que, durante la Conferencia de Revisión del Tratado de No Proliferación Nuclear que se celebrará el próximo mes de mayo en New York, se tomen decisiones concretas en favor de un desarme progresivo, con vistas a liberar a nuestro planeta de las armas nucleares.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Religious, New York, Military

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• If protesting against having a nuclear bomb implanted in my brain is anti-Hindu and anti-national, then I secede. I hereby declare myself an independent, mobile republic. I am a citizen of the earth. I own no territory. I have no flag. My policies are simple. I'm willing to sign any nuclear non-proliferation treaty or nuclear test ban treaty that's going. Immigrants are welcome. You can help me design our flag.

  Arundhati Roy

  Independent, Simple, Design

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