Hi Friend --

After four weeks, the 10th NPT Review Conference has ended, failing to address the urgency of the moment and need for action on disarmament. While Russia officially blocked it, the conference real problems of the lack of willingness of the five nuclear weapon states to implement their nuclear disarmament obligations. You can read more here.

As we’ve shared, this NPT RevCon has been a difficult and often undemocratic process. There has been strong and broad support for the TPNW, and strong demands from the majority of states for real progress on eliminating nuclear weapons, the negotiations sidelined this through nuclear weapon states’ desire to maintain the status quo.

In a year when a nuclear-armed state invaded a non-nuclear armed state, a meeting of nearly all countries in the world failed to condemn Russia’s threats to use nuclear weapons, failed to condemn other treaty violations by the nuclear armed states and failed to take any steps that would advance nuclear disarmament.

This is unacceptable. And we know we can do better. In fact, we already have.

This Review Conference showed the unique potential of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). At the First Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW states parties in June this year, committed to the Vienna Action Plan, 50 concrete steps to advance disarmament, help victims of nuclear use and testing, commit to inclusion and progressive steps on gender and disarmament.

Faced with an unacceptable dangerous global situation, states parties to the TPNW did in three days what the NPT failed to do in one month: adopt a credible plan to advance disarmament, help victims of nuclear use and testing, and condemn any and all threats to use nuclear weapons. The TPNW has shown how multilateralism and diplomacy should respond to a deteriorating international security environment. 

We have a plan through the TPNW and are going to continue to work with committed states to get rid of nuclear weapons once and for all. 

We are grateful that you stand with us in this work. 

Thank you,

Alicia Sanders-Zakre
Policy and Research
Coordinator ICAN

It’s time to end nuclear weapons.

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