7 Amendments of Jan Marinus WIERSMA related to 2008/2324(INI)
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital D
Recital D
D. in particular, strongly encouraged by a number of statements on US nuclear policy made by the then President-elect Barack Obama, in which he underlined that the United States will seek a world in which there are no nuclear weapons,4 and will work with Russia to take US and Russian ballistic missiles off hair-trigger alert, and dramatically reduce the stockpiles of US nuclear weapons and material5, 1 Arms Control Today 2008 Presidential Q&A: President-elect Barack Obama, http://www.armscontrol.org/2008election. 2 Remarks of Senator Barack Obama: a New Beginning, Chicago, IL, 2 October 2007. ; warmly welcoming the intention of President Obama to finalise US ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear -Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT),
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. underscoring the need for close coordination and cooperation between the European Union and its main strategic partners, including in particular the United States and Russia, with a view to reviving and strengthening the non- proliferation regime,
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital H
Recital H
H. recognemphasising that moving towards the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons will require bold political leadership and a number of progressive, consecutive steps, which would be facilitated within a framework agreement such as that proposed by the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention, incorporating, reinforcing, linking and building onstrengthening the NPT as the cornerstone of the global non- proliferation regime is of vital importance, and recognising that bold political leadership and a number of progressive, consecutive steps are urgently needed in order to reaffirm the validity of the NPT and to reinforce the agreements, treaties and agencies that make up the existing proliferation and disarmament regime, including inter alia the NPT, particular the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and the International Atomic Energy Agency,
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a
Paragraph 1 – point a
(a) review and update Council Common Position 2005/329/PESC of 25 April 2005 relating to the 2005 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non- Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, to be endorsed at the December 2009 European Council meeting, in preparation for a successful outcome at the 2010 NPT Review Conference;
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point b
Paragraph 1 – point b
(b) endorsespouse the aim of eventual total nuclear disarmament as contained in the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention and the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol in its Common Position for the 2010 NTP Review Conference, so that the governments of all Member States cand promote their adoption in the course of negotiations;
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point d
Paragraph 1 – point d
(d) deepen its dialogue with the new US administration and all, Russia and other nuclear- weapons powers, with a view to pursusignificantly strengthening the NPT as well as promoting a common agenda aimed at the creation of a nuclear- weapons-free world; in particular, support US and Russian steps to substantially reduce their nuclear weapons as agreed in START I and in SORT; press for ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear- Test-Ban Treaty and renewal of the START agreement;
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point e d (new)
Paragraph 1 – point e d (new)
(ed) develop, in cooperation with its partners, concrete proposals to bring the production, use and reprocessing of all nuclear fuel under multilateral control, building on the most promising initiatives for the multilateralisation of the nuclear fuel cycle, in particular the IAEA nuclear fuel bank; support moves to strengthen the mandate of the IAEA and ensure that its resources are adequate for the vital role which that institution plays in making nuclear activities secure;