Treaties and bodies

At a recent meeting of parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty in Geneva, the Australian government refused to sign on to an 80-nation statement declaring that any use of nuclear weapons would have catastrophic humanitarian consequences.

MAPW submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties in regard to the proposed extension of the 1987 Regional Co-operative Agreement for Research, Development and Training Related to Nuclear Science and Technology. The submission protests against the signing of such a treaty, particularly with states which have not signed the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty.

Statement on the “humanitarian dimension of nuclear disarmament" presented to the 2012 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review by Switzerland’s Ambassador, Benno Laggner on behalf of 16 governments.

Labor sells out on nuclear non-proliferation, a joint media release from MAPW and ICANⁱ on 4 December, following the ALP conference decision to sell uranium to India.

A two page briefing paper by Tim Wright summarising the legal opinion on uranium sales to India provided to ICAN by Professor Donald Rothwell of ANU.

Formal legal opinion provided to ICAN by Professor Don Rothwell from the Australian National University states that the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty prohibits Australia from selling uranium to countries that have not accepted full-scope safeguards.