Abstract:
The emergence of nuclear weapons as a new actor in international relations has introduced a new area in the international security arena. Since the appearance of these weapons, there have been increasing efforts to limit and destroy them in order to achieve global peace in the framework of disarmament and centered around the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Along with the emergence of the non-proliferation system and the current trend, achieving nuclear disarmament has turned into an international demand, especially for the Non-Aligned Movement member states. The present study seeks to analyze the influence of the Non-Aligned Movement on disarmament in the framework of the mentioned Treaty. To this end, and based on the Neoliberal Institutionalism theory, this article studies the Non-Aligned Movement’s stance toward nuclear disarmament in the framework of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the Review Conferences of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The study is written according to the descriptive-analytical method. The findings suggest that despite its inefficient influence prior to the 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the Non-Aligned Movement, as a major actor in international peace and security, has gained an influential position in the negotiations about the formation of the trends related to nuclear disarmament in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Machine summary:
After the 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, NAM member states made a few new requests.
The second group, which were mostly proposed in the 2000 Review Conference, emphasize the negotiations on disarmament in the framework of an agreement capable of verification in an international scale and without discrimination which include prohibiting the production of nuclear fissile materials for nuclear weapons or explosive materials, establishing a proper secondary institution to oversee nuclear disarmament in the Disarmament Conference, the unlimited extension of nuclear disarmament and limiting the related weapons, clear commitment of NWS regarding disarmament, general and complete disarmament, regular reo-porting regarding Article VI of the Treaty, verification capability which guaranties commitments to nuclear disarmament agreements, and achieving a world free of nuclear weapons.
The Non-Aligned Movement and Nuclear Disarmament: Stance and Actions In the 1975 NPT Review Conference, NWS provided the SALT I Treaty1 as the proof of their commitments to Article VI2.
In the text of the final 1975 declaration, taking more serious actions regarding Article VI was emphasized and the US and Soviet Union, facing pressure from NNWS, made a commitment to follow the negotiations in good faith and execute the agreements regarding disarmament (Inventory of International Nonproliferation Organizations and Regimes (2009).
htm), and consider issues such as: emphasizing the establishment of a secondary and proper institution tasked with disarmament irreversibility of disarmament and weapon control and the related actions clear commitment of the nuclear powers2, the fact that the ultimate objective of the states is general and complete disarmament overseen by effective international supervision 1.