Abstract:
Cabactulan - Permanent Representative of the Phillippines to the UN and President of the eighth review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) - announced its successful conclusion after four weeks of intense negotiations. At the conference, the 189 states parties to the treaty reached a hard-won consensus on the adoption of a final document that reviews treaty implementation and endorses future actions aimed at its strengthening.
The conference demonstrated that despite differences among treaty members on a wide range of core issues relating to the global non-proliferation regime, a near universal consensus on the central importance and value of the NPT can be forged.
