The Article 4.2, of this version provides: "***(E)ach State Party that owns, possesses or controls nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices shall immediately remove them from operational status, and destroy them as soon as possible but not later than a deadline to be determined by the first meeting of States Parties*** [emphasis added], in accordance with a legally binding, time-bound plan for the verified and irreversible elimination of that State Party’s nuclear-weapon programme, including theelimination or irreversible conversion of all nuclear-weapons-related facilities. The State Party, no later than 60 days after the entry into force of this Treaty for that State Party, shall submit this plan to the States Parties or to a competent international authority designated by the States Parties. The plan shall then be negotiated with the competent international authority, which shall submit it to the subsequent meeting of States Parties or review conference, whichever comes first, for approval in accordance with its rules of procedure."
Though this text itself does not lay down the "deadline", it is definitely a marked, and highly welcome, improvement over the earlier version which had left things quite fuzzy as regards the "nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices (acquired) after 5 December 2001". (Ref. Article 5 of the "first draft" at < http://www.icanw.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DraftTreaty.pdf>.) One only hopes that it gets adopted, later today. Sukla Pls. click on: <http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/A-CONF.229-2017-L.3-Rev.1.pdf >. -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
