Nuclear weapons

• Presentation and position of France

  • Presentation and position of France
  • Speech of the President of the Republic on the Defense and Deterrence Strategy (07/02/2020)

• Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

  • First Preparatory Committee of the 11th review cycle of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) (July 31st- August 11th 2023)
  • 29th April - 10th of May 2019 - Third Preparatory Committee to the 2020 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (New York)
  • 23 April to 4 May, 2018 Second Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
  • May 2 to 12, 2017: 1st Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Review Conference of the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
  • "Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty" - side-event organized by Canada (Vienna, 3 May 2017).
  • 27th of April - 22nd of May, 2015: 9th Review Conference of the NPT
  • 3rd Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) - New York, from the 28th of April to the 9th of May, 2014.
  • P5 - Joint Statement of the Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States On Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races (3 January 2022)
  • Joint Statement by the Foreign Ministers of China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (March 10, 2020)

• Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)

  • Presentation of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)
  • Verification Regime of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
  • CTBT - 25 years of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
  • International Day against Nuclear Tests: France is committed to the prohibition of nuclear tests (29 August 2017)

• Fissile material cut off treaty (FMCT)

  • Presentation and position of France
  • French action
  • High-level fissile material cut-off treaty (FMCT) expert preparatory group
  • Resolution 71/259 "Treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices"
  • French draft of the Fissile material cut off treaty
  • The FMCT to the Conference on Disarmament
  • The Group of Governmental Experts (2014-2015)
  • Fourth session of the Group of Governmental Experts (Geneva, from the 23rd of March to the 2nd of April, 2015)
  • Visit of the French dismantled fissile material production facilities at Pierrelatte and Marcoule (05/02/2020)

• Joint Franco-German exercise on verification of nuclear disarmament (NuDiVe)

  • Second joint exercise between France and Germany on Nuclear Disarmament Verification - NuDiVe (04-08 april 2022)
  • Presentation of the NuDiVe exercise to the Conference on Disarmament - 05/03/2020
  • Joint Franco-German exercise on verification of nuclear disarmament (NuDiVe)

• P5

  • P5 - Paris Conference (Paris, 2-3 December 2021)
  • P5 Conference in London – 12-13 February 2020
  • P5 meeting in London: joint statement (on the 5th of February, 2015)
  • P5 Conference in Beijing on the follow-up of the Review Conference of the NPT (14/15 April 2014)

• Nuclear-weapon-free zones

  • Third conference on the zones free from nuclear weapons - Intervention of Mr Louis Riquet (New York, on the 24th of April, 2015)
  • Ratification from France of the protocol of the Treaty establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Central Asia
  • Treaty establishing a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Central Asia: signature of the protocol in New York (6 May 2014)

• Proliferation crises

  • Iran
  • North Korea

• Nuclear disarmament: figures on the action of France
• Nuclear weapons: statement of Mr François Hollande in Istres (on the 19th of February, 2015)
• Nuclear disarmament - Response of Mr Laurent Fabius to a question of the National Assembly (Paris, 14 October 2014)
• Hearing of Mr Laurent Fabius, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development, at the Committee of Foreign Affairs of the National Assembly
• National and joint press statements: Treaty banning nuclear weapons (New York, 7 July 2017).
• Annual NATO Conference on weapons of mass destruction
• Nuclear disarmament - Mr Jean-Marc Ayrault, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International development anwers a parliamentary question - National Assembly (Paris, 05/05/2016)

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