15 Amendments of Charlie WEIMERS related to 2020/2004(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
Citation 11 a (new)
- having regard to the NATO Secretary General’s Statement on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear forces Treaty of 2 August 2019,
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 b (new)
Citation 11 b (new)
- having regard to the new START Treaty signed by the United States and Russian Federation in effect since 5 February 2011,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 a (new)
Citation 18 a (new)
- having regard to Russia’s repeated violations of the INF Treaty due to Russia’s deployment of the SSC-8 missile system,
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the 2020 review conference will take place in a particularly challenging international security context, owing to the lack of progress in the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula as well as the US withdrawal from, Iran’s alleged violations and the responding formal complaints of France, UK and Germany formally triggering a dispute mechanism in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran; whereas the current degree of disagreement and division between the 191 NPT nuclear- armed and non-armed state parties over the best approach to reducing and eliminating nuclear weapons will add a further challenge to the debate;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas the previous failurecomplete disregard by Russia to honour the security guarantees it had given to Ukraine by the Budapest Memorandum and disregard for international law, has had a corrosive effect on the climate of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation talks;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S a (new)
Recital S a (new)
S a. whereas the strategic nuclear forces of the United States, UK and France have contributed to nuclear deterrence for decades;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital V
Recital V
V. whereas multilateral dialogue and diplomacy have proven to be effective tools in preventing the proliferation crisis and an escalation of conflicts, as demonstrated by the JCPOA, which is considered a historic accomplishment and a key contribution to the global non- proliferation regime;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e
Paragraph 1 – point e
(e) remind the states that the 50th anniversary of the NPT, coinciding with the 2020 Review Conference, could provide momentum for engaging in a sincere and result-oriented dialogue in order to restore mutual trust and confidence, the aim being to enlarge areas of overlap and identify a common ground in order to make headway with discussions; the ultimate goal being the adoption of an agreed document recognising nuclear disarmament and the total elimination of nuclear weapons as a common objective;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h
Paragraph 1 – point h
(h) call on states in violation of the NPT such as Iran, to recognise nuclear arms control, disarmament and non- proliferation regimes as crucial tools in substantially contributing to reversing the deterioration of the international security environment, thereby preventing major interstate war and preserving peace and security;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k
Paragraph 1 – point k
(k) urge the US and Russia to assume responsibilities that stem from their possession of the bulk of world’s nuclear arsenal in order to enhance mutual trust and confidence in view of resuming a dialogue on possible ways to build a new arms control relationship; stress that a clear commitment by Russia and the US, ahead of the 2020 NPT Review Conference, to extend the new START Treaty before February 2021 would be an important contribution to the review conference; strongly encourages both parties to negotiate a new instrument that would eincompass both deployed and non- deployed weaponlude China in light of its widespread proliferation of missile technologies, as well as strategic and non- strategic weapons;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l
Paragraph 1 – point l
(l) reiterate the EU’s deep regret in connection with the recent collapse of the INF Treaty due to Russia's deployment of the SSC-8 missile system, which is nuclear-capable, mobile, hard to detect, and lowers the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict, while stressing the significant negative impact of this on European security; call on both signatories to the INF Treaty to resume dialogue on possible ways to put in place a new legally binding instrument for short- and medium-range missiles; support efforts to multilateralise such instruments to include China in light of its widespread proliferation of missile technologies;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t
Paragraph 1 – point t
(t) take into account the outcome of the first session of the Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Nuclear- Weapon-Free Zone, the abstention from an instauration of a convention by all 28 Member States and continue supporting the longstanding goal of drafting a legally binding treaty allowing for the establishment of a MENWFZ; encourage all participating states to do their utmost to advance in this endeavour at the second session of the Conference;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point w
Paragraph 1 – point w
(w) support the commitment to enhance transparency by the nuclear-weapon statesamong all nuclear-armed signatories of the NPT in line with the 13 steps on disarmament adopted at the 2000 NPT Review Conference; recall that further improving the reporting mechanism by systematising the nuclear-weapon- states’ reporting frameworks would contribute to achieving the same level of transparency among the different nuclear- weapon states; in this context calls on the EU to pay special attention to the Non- Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative proposals to enhance transparency for strengthening the review process of the NPT;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point aa
Paragraph 1 – point aa