US Mission Geneva

The United States welcomes this opportunity to address the important NPT issues of nuclear safety and security as well efforts to discourage potential abuse of the Treaty’s right to withdraw.

I am very pleased to have the chance to speak today to reaffirm the commitment of the United States to promoting the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, as called for under Article IV of the Treaty.

The United States remains committed to convening a conference on a Middle East zone free of weapons of mass destruction. We regret that it proved impossible to meet last year as envisioned in the 2010 NPT Review Conference Final Document.

As President Obama said at Prague in 2009, “[R]ules must be binding. Violations must be punished. Words must mean something. The world must stand together to prevent the spread of [nuclear] weapons.”

In recent years, the United States has worked toward extending legally binding negative security assurances by pursuing ratification of protocols to a number of other nuclear-weapon-free zone treaties.

White House Official: Our intelligence community does assess with varying degrees of confidence that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria, specifically the chemical agent sarin.

The U.S. is committed to the principles of irreversibility, verifiability and transparency for nuclear disarmament and is also working with other NPT Parties to implement the Action Plan across all three pillars.

Rose Gottemoeller, Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, joined Anatoly Antonov, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, in a side event at the 2013 NPT Prepcom in Geneva ….

An NPT Treaty that is universally followed will best advance international security and nuclear energy’s contribution to peace, health, and prosperity.