United Nations: The following are key points of the final document agreed here at the end of a month-long UN conference to review efforts to curb the spread of nuclear weapons.
Nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East
The United Nations, the United States, Russia and Britain will convene a regional conference in 2012 on setting up a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.
The conference reaffirms the urgency and importance of achieving universality of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). It calls on all states in the Middle East that have not yet done so to accede to the treaty as non-nuclear weapon states so as to achieve its universality at an early date.
Nuclear disarmament
The five nuclear weapons states - Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States - commit to make "further efforts to reduce and ultimately eliminate all types of nuclear weapons." But no timeframe is set.
Security assurances
The conference on Disarmament in Geneva should immediately begin discussion of "effective international arrangements to assure non nuclear-weapon states against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons."
Nuclear testing
All nuclear-weapons states undertake to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty with all expediency. Pending the entry into force of the CTBT, all states commit to refrain from nuclear weapon test explosions or any other nuclear explosions.
Fissile materials
The conference reaffirms the urgent need to negotiate and bring to conclusion "a non-discriminatory, multilateral and internationally and effectively verifiable treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear arms or other nuclear explosive devices."
Nuclear non-proliferation
The conference stresses the importance of complying with the non-proliferation obligations, addressing all compliance matters in order to uphold the treaty's integrity and the authority of the safeguards system.
The conference encourages all state parties which have not yet done so "to conclude and bring into force additional protocols as soon as possible and to implement them provisionally pending their entry into force."
The conference calls on state parties to consider specific measures that would promote the universalisation of the comprehensive safeguard agreements.
Peaceful uses of nuclear energy
The conference call on state parties to press on with talks, "in a non-discriminatory and transparent manner under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency or regional fora," on the development of multilateral approaches to the nuclear fuel cycle.
North Korea
The conference strongly urges North Korea to fulfill its commitments under the six-party talks, including "the complete and verifiable abandonment of all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs." It also calls on Pyongyang "to return, at an early date, to the (NPT) treaty and to its adherence with its IAEA safeguards agreement."
