On the Road to the 2015 NPT Review Conference

Abstract

The second session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference (RevCon) of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) highlighted two issues in particular—progress toward a Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction–Free Zone and the Joint Statement on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons—that may not only greatly affect the health and vitality of the NPT and the 2015 RevCon, but possibly also have implications for the international nonproliferation regime as a whole. Dr. William Potter, director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, interviewed Ambassador Cornel Feruta, chairman of the 2013 PrepCom, to discuss these and other issues related to the meeting and the future of the treaty and its review process.

KEYWORDS:

• Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
• Middle East
• Egypt
• weapons of mass destruction–free zone
• multilateral negotiations

Notes

1. At the time of his chairmanship, Ambassador Feruta was director-general for political affairs in the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In September 2013, he assumed a new position as chief coordinator at the International Atomic Energy Agency.