Canadian Voice of Women for Peace

NPT Review Conference - News and Views
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
May 4th, 2005

VIEWS:

1. Letter to the Prime Minister on NPT from the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, April (pdf)

2. CBC Commentary on NPT by Dr. Mary – Wynne Ashford, May 3, 2005

3. Canadian Government Media release and Approach to NPT

DFAIT

Relevant information from DFAIT website on the NPT Treaty
Review process :

[A] NPT Review Highlight Week of May 2, 2005
http://www.fac-aec.gc.ca/menu-en.asp
Canada's Approach to the 2005 NPT Review Conference
Canada continues to focus efforts in seeking a nuclear weapons-free world by reinforcing the authority and integrity of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and by promoting the implementation of its obligations worldwide.

[B] CANADA PARTICIPATES IN REVIEW OF TREATY ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS
- 2005-05-02
http://webapps.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/MinPub/Publication.asp?Language=E&publication_id=382516

[C] Canada's stance on NPT can be found
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/arms/nulear4-en.asp
Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
THE NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY
CANADA'S APPROACH TO THE 2005 NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE
NPT STATEMENTS AND WORKING PAPERS
THE NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY

[D] Canada's approach to NPT is found within broader section of DFAIT
Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/arms/nuclear-en.asp
as follows:

Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Canadian Policy

The SCFAIT Report and the Government Response

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

Fissile Materials Cut-Off Negotiations

4. Arms Control Association & WILPF

Major Proposals to Strengthen the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty A RESOURCE GUIDE by Claire Applegarth and Rhianna Tyson Arms Control Association and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) April 2005

WILPF – Reaching Critical Will
http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/pubs/MajorProposals.pdf

NGO Calendar of Events NPT Conference
http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/legal/npt/RevConEvents.html

5. Reframing the Debate Against Nuclear Weapons by Rhianna Tyson
http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull462/reframing_
debate.html

6. Abolition Now and Mayors for Peace

ABOLITION NOW! IN THE NEWS
http://www.abolitionnow.org/press.html

Mayors for Peace
http://www.abolitionnow.org/

7. Apocalypse Soon by Robert S. McNamara
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/files/story2829.php
FP Foreign Policy, May/June 2005

8. Erosion of the Nonproliferation Treaty by Jimmy Carter

Published on Monday, May 2, 2005 by the International Herald Tribune
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0502-28.htm

NEWS SITES:

1. UN News Centre -NPT Focus
http://www.un.org/events/npt2005/

UN Webcast Live / UN Press Releases on NPT -Press Releases and More

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference opens at Headquarters
SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS REGIME HAS WORKED, BUT IS NOW UNDER ‘GREAT STRESS’ Director General of Atomic Energy Agency Tells Delegates Treaty Must Evolve to Match Changing Realities or Fade to Irrelevance
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2005/dc2955.doc.htm

NUCLEAR WEAPON BAN ONLY GUARANTEE THEY WILL NEVER AGAIN BE USED, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN REMARKS TO MAYORS FOR PEACE May 3, 2005-05-05
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2005/sgsm9853.doc.htm

2. Yahoo World News NPT

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050501/ap_on_re_us/un_nuclear_treaty
Full Coverage: Nuclear Weapons

3. News Highlights

Outdated nuclear treaty is a threat to us all, warns Annan
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington 03 May 2005
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=635171

Clash Over Language Slows Nuke Conference
By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent Wed May 4, 3:03 AM ET
UNITED NATIONS - In a nightmare future of nuclear conflict, megatonnage would matter. But in today's real world, at a crucial U.N. nuclear conference, diplomats can still limit their wars to words.

Marian Hobbs leads off NPT debate in New York
Tuesday, 3 May 2005, 3:04 pm
Press Release: New Zealand Government
3 May 2005
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0505/S00041.htm

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