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REPORT on the challenges and prospects for multilateral weapons of mass destruction arms control and disarmament regimes
Amendments (39)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 17 January 2013 on the Recommendations of the Non- Proliferation Treaty Review Conference regarding the establishment of a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction,
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 b (new)
Citation 1 b (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 27 October 2016 on nuclear security and non-proliferation,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
— having regard to Council Decision 2010/212/CFSP of 29 March 2010 relating to the position of the European Union for the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non- Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, in particular its Article 3(9) on non-strategic nuclear weapons,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14
Citation 14
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16
Citation 16
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 a (new)
Citation 17 a (new)
— having regard to the UN Secretary-General António Guterres statement on the 25 October 2020 about the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entry into force as a 'culmination of a worldwide movement to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons,
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas Weapons of Mass Destruction, in particular nuclear weapons, due to their humanitarian, environmental, social, and economic consequences, constitute a grave threat to long-term human security and planetary health;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas in the current tense geopolitical context,nuclear weapon states have recently dismantled key arms control treaties that came into force at the end of the Cold War have recently been dismantled, despite the current tense geopolitical context;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the EU, through its Strategy against Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), is proactively contributing to disarmament and the prevention of the use and proliferation of WMDs;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) entered into force on 22 January 2021; whereas six EU Member States participated in the TPNW negotiations in the UN General Assembly and five voted in favour of adoption of the new treaty: whereas three EU Member States are States Parties to the TPNW; whereas no NATO Allies and no state possessing nuclear weapons are States Parties to the TPNW; whereas no meaningful results in the global non-proliferation and disarmament efforts are possible without the involvement and active participation of the five nuclear-weapon States Parties to the NPTinvolvement of the nuclear-weapon States Parties to the NPT and the other four nuclear weapon possessors would be desirable to make progress on nuclear disarmament more likely;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was an achievement of multilateral diplomacy led by the EU; whereas the US and IranJCPOA participants E3/EU, China, Russia, Iran as well as the United States have begun indirect negotiations with a view to their US return to the JCPOA; whereas the United States remains in noncompliance with UNSC Resolution 2231 and Iran has ceassuspended the application of the aAdditional pProtocol; and taken other measures in violation of the JCPOA;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas ratification of eight states, including the US and China, prevents entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) has not yet been universally ratified;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas the Conference on Disarmament has not yeafter 25 years of standstill has still not formally launched negotiations on the proposed Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT), a treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas since the withdrawal of the UK from the EU, France is now the only nuclear Member State and continues actively the modernization and renewal of its nuclear arsenal;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Recital N a (new)
N a. whereas the UK has announced that it will raise the ceiling for its overall nuclear stockpile size by more than 40%, to 260 operationally available warheads and to make its nuclear posture more opaque by no longer declaring stockpile numbers;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas India and Pakistan, states outside the NPT framework, have declared themselves to be in possession of nuclear weapons; whereas it is generally understood that Israel is in possession of nuclear weapons; whereas North Korea has detonated several nuclear explosive devises since 2006 and announced its intention to withdraw from the NPT;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas Russia has failed for many yearsseveral states parties have failed to comply with itstheir obligations under the Open Skies Treaty; whereas the US and Russia have successively withdrawn from the treaty;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R
Recital R
R. whereas the Chemical Weapons Convention is the world’s first multilateral disarmament agreement to provide for the verifiable elimination of an entire category of weapons of mass destruction; whereas in the past decade, the ethiclegal norm against the use of chemical weapons has begun to show alarming signs of erosionen violated several times, including by the Syrian government and the Islamic State;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S
Recital S
S. whereas the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) was agreed without on-sitea verification mechanisms to ensure compliance and negotiations on a verification protocol collapsed 20 years ago, following the US withdrawal from the ad hoc group;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital V
Recital V
V. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the need to increase EU chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defence (CBRN) preparednesshould raise our awareness to the potential impact of CBRN risks;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reiterates its full commitment to the preservation of effective international arms control, disarmament and non- proliferation regimes as a cornerstone of global and European security; recalls its commitment to pursuing policies designed to move forward the reduction and elimination of all nuclear arsenals and to achieve a world withoutfree of nuclear weapons; calls for a renewed arms control and disarmament multilateral order;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Reaffirms its full support to the NPT; expects nuclear-weapon states to take steps 'in good faith' to demonstrate their genuine commitment to nuclear disarmament; exhorts States Parties to do their utmost to contribute to a successful and ambitious outcome of the upcoming 10th Review Conference; calls on EU Member States to attend the Review Conference at a high political level; invites all NPT States Parties to therefore constructively engage in the NPT framework, and agree on realistic, effective, tangible, reciprocal and verifiable measures conducive to the achievement of the shared goal of nuclear disarmament;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for the available expertise in non-proliferation and arms control in the EU to be strengthened and the training of EU and Member State personnel to be improved; calls in particular for the creation of a European Dual-Use Export Control Agency in order to meet the widened mandate for transparency reporting, coordination, enforcement and enlarged scope of obligations in the Dual- Use Regulation (2021/821);
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Calls on the EU to strengthen European leadership on victim assistance and environmental remediation due to the consequences of nuclear testing in areas affected by nuclear tests; asks the European External Action Service and the Commission to conduct a series of expert hearings, workshops and other such events and commission a set of studies on concrete short, medium and long-term actions that the EU and its Member States can realize in order to strengthening the Union's humanitarian role; is alarmed by the discrepancy between the IAEA report of 2005 on Radiological Conditions at the Former French Nuclear Test Sites in Algeria and recent reports of considerable radioactivity risks in Algeria resulting from testing;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Calls on EU Member States and the EU to facili-tate the implementation of the TPNW’s provisions on victim assistance and environmental remedi-ation;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes the entry into force of the TPNW as an expression of the desire of the majority of the global community to live in a nuclear weapon-free world; recalls that the goal of nuclear disarmament must be pursued while ensuring international stability and undiminished collective security; invites all NPT States Parties to therefore constructively engage in the NPT framework, and agree on reholds the NPT and the TPNW obligations to be compatible and mutually reinforcing; recalls that nuclear disarmament contributes to ensuring internationali stic, effective, tangible, reciprocal and verifiable measures conducive to the achievement of the ultimate shared long- term goal of nuclear disarmamentability and undiminished collective security;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Calls on all EU Member States to engage constructively with the new treaty, including by attending the first meeting of TPNW states parties (1MSP) as observers, State Parties or Signatory States and calls on the EEAS to observe 1MSP, as it had done in the case of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti- Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (Mine Ban Treaty) in 1999 and the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2011;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Recalls the central role played by the IAEA; calls on the states that have not yet done so to ratify thebring into force an IAEA additional protocol without delay;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Reaffirms its full support for the JCPOA as a key element of the global nuclear non-proliferation architecture; calls on all parties to return to the negotiations with a view to returning to-establishing full and effective compliance with the agreement;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Confirms that the entry into force and ratification of the CTBT continues to be an important objective of the EU’s Strategy against Proliferation of WMD and calls on all states to refrain from nuclear tests;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Calls on all States that have not signed the CTBT and the TPNW to accede to it and urges all States that have signed but not ratified these treaties to do so;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Calls on all nuclear weapon states to increase transparency on their nuclear holdings and declare overall nuclear weapons national inventories;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15 b. Calls on all nuclear weapon states to diminish the role and significance of nuclear weapons in all military and security concepts, doctrines and policies:
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Warmly welcomes the decision taken by the US and the Russian Federation to extend the New START Treaty; advocates the involvement of other nuclear-armed countries, notably China, France and the UK, in negotiations on any new arms control agreement;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Calls on all nuclear weapon states to follow the example of Russia and the United States and affirm the principle that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Notes with concern the ongoing Russian modernisation programmes which raise questions about Russian compliance with the objectives of the Presidential Nuclear Initiatives; calls on both the US and the Russian Federation to stick to their commitments in relation to non-strategic nuclear weapons and to ensurincrease transparency on arsenals, deployments and the status of their respective weapons;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Stresses the crucial role played by the Open Skies Treaty; calls on the remaining signatories to continue implementing the treaty; urges the US and the Russian Federation to resume talks with a view to returning to the treaty and to its full, effective and verifiable implementation; urges the remaining states to develop the Treaty further by reimagining it as a multi-purpose regime including scientist-to-scientist exchanges, emergency response cooperation, environmental monitoring, and other missions;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls for the equal, full and meaningful participation of women in NPT forums, TPNW, and CTBT conferences and fora to be ensured;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26 a. Decides to send a European Parliament delegation to the The First Meeting of States Parties (1MSP) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) which is currently scheduled to take place from 22 to 24 March 2022 in Vienna;