Now
is a crucial time for the UK
to support multilateral efforts to abolish nuclear weapons.
The
UK
could take a lead in shaping a non-nuclear world by:
lSupporting
negotiations towards a Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC). A NWC would cover the
development, testing, production, stockpiling, transfer, use and threat of use
of nuclear weapons and their eventual elimination; it would reinforce both the
non-proliferation and disarmament aims of the NPT.
lProposing at the
2010 NPT Review Conference that multilateral negotiations aimed at abolition through
a NWC should begin.
Given
the pressing need for the UK
to show political leadership on this issue would
you support HMG proposing at the 2010 NPT Review Conference that multilateral
negotiations aimed at abolition should begin?