1L.L.B, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, E-mail Id - tanushree26163@gmail.com
M.A, Ph.D, University of Lucknow, Lucknow
Online published on 27 May, 2016.
It became official with the closing meeting of the month-long Ninth Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT): the parties could not reach consensus agreement on a substantive final declaration. By all accounts, the failure of the 2015 conference to produce a consensus outcome document with any substance can be attributed to the discussions around the establishment of a WMD-free zone in the Middle East, an issue linked to a resolution adopted at the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference.
NPT, Nuclear wepons, 13-Steps, Humanitarian Initiative, NPT Review Conference, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Middle East, United Nations