Nach einer Vorkonferenz im Januar fand die erste Phase der Konferenz unter Beteiligung von 132 Staaten im März/April 2017 statt.
Hier die Liste der UN-Staaten, die sich an der ersten Konferenzphase im März 2017 beteiligt haben als pdf .
Der von der Präsidentin der Verbotskonferenz im Mai vorgelegte Vertragsentwurf wird überwiegend positiv aufgenommen. Beobachter halten es für möglich, dass es bereits in der nun ab 15.6.17 laufenden weiteren Konferenzphase zu einem abschließenden Ergebnis kommt.
Die Erklärung soll am 22.6.2017 in New York übergeben werden.
Veröffentlicht am 14. Juni 2017 von ICAN Germany
75 Prozent fordern die Teilnahme an den Verhandlungen, nur 12 Prozent sind dagegen, der Rest machte keine Angaben. Von den Unions-Wählern bei der vergangenen Bundestagswahl sind 77 Prozent für die Beteiligung, von den SPD-Wählern 83 Prozent. Bei Linkspartei, Grünen und FDP sind die Zustimmungswerte noch höher. Lediglich unter den AfD-Wählern gibt es tendenziell weniger Unterstützer. Mehr....
http://www.icanw.de/neuigkeiten/deutsche-wollen-andere-atomwaffenpolitik-der-regierung/
Just a few minutes ago at the United Nations in Geneva, the draft text for a treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons was presented by the President of the negotiations, Ambassador Elayne Whyte of Costa Rica. The draft is based on the discussions and inputs made at the first session of the conference to negotiate such treaty held on 27-31 March 2017.
As expected the draft treaty outlines general obligations that would prohibited States parties to the treaty from developing, producing, acquiring, possessing, testing or using nuclear weapons.
The draft treaty also requires states parties to accept safeguards on nuclear energy facilities, with a view to preventing diversion of nuclear energy from peaceful uses to nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices.
Participants in nuclear ban talks agree broadly on the core prohibitions and obligations they want to see enshrined. As discussions last week showed, though, on some provisions—like how to conduct verification and prevent stockpiling—opinions diverged.
http://thebulletin.org/what-will-be-ban
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Gen. Hyten said, “Can I imagine a world without nuclear weapons? Yes, I can. That’s a world I didn’t like.”
He criticized the effort underway at the United Nations to achieve a treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons, saying that nuclear weapons act as a deterrent and keep the peace.
by Newsweek, March 31, 2017
John Burroughs is Executive Director of the New York-based Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy & Director of UN Office of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms.
NEW YORK, Apr 3 2017 (IPS) - Is a paradigm shift now underway on nuclear weapons at the United Nations? That was the question posed as about 130 nations gathered this past week to begin negotiations on a treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons, leading to their total elimination....
This is the first multilateral negotiation on nuclear weapons since the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) was adopted in 1996. It is also the first ever such negotiation relating to the global elimination of nuclear arms, despite the fact that the first UN General Assembly resolution, in 1946, called for the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.
http://www.ipsnews.net/2017/04/a-transformational-moment-in-nuclear-international-affairs/
leading to their total elimination, to be negotiated this year. The elements discussed are ones of special concern to IALANA; we have made no effort to provide a comprehensive catalogue, and there are many important elements not discussed here....
und in gekürzter Form als offizielles UN-Dokument