Activities of Josef ZIELENIEC related to 2008/2324(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Non-proliferation and the future of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) (debate)
Amendments (26)
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Citation 4
Citation 4
Amendment 7 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Citation 6
Citation 6
Amendment 10 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital -A a (new)
Recital -A a (new)
-Aa. stressing the need to reinforce further all of the three pillars of the NPT, namely non-proliferation, disarmament and cooperation on the civilian use of nuclear energy,
Amendment 12 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital A
Recital A
A. strongly concerned about the lack of progress in achieving concretsome of the objectives (such as the so-called "13 steps"1) in pursuit of the goals of the NPT Treaty, as agreed at the previous Review Conferences, namely ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, especially now that threats are arising from a variety of sources, including increasing proliferation going hand in hand with the greater demand for, and availability of, nuclear technology, the potential for such technology and radioactive material to fall into the hands of criminal organisations and terrorists, and the reluctance of nuclear weapons States that are signatories to the NPT to reduce or eliminate their nuclear arsenals and decrease their adherence to a military doctrine of nuclear deterrence, 1 United Nations: 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, NPT/CONF.2000/28 (Parts I and II).
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. welcoming the readiness of the Council and the Commission to contribute financially up to EUR 25 million to the creation of a nuclear fuel bank under the control of the IAEA and fully supporting its establishment,
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital B
Recital B
B. encouraged bynoting new disarmament proposals such as those called for by Henry Kissinger, George P. Shultz, William J. Perry and Sam Nunn in January 2007 and January 2008 and campaigns such as "Global Zero", which argue that weapons of mass destruction have no place in a civilised world and that one crucial way of ensuring the prevention of nuclear proliferation and the achievement of global security is to move resolutely towards the complete prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons,
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital C
Recital C
C. encouraged by the support that these proposals have received from political and diplomatic circles worldwide and by the specific response made to it by Helmut Schmidt, Richard von Weizsäcker, Egon Bahr and Hans-Dietrich Genscher1 as well as by political figures in owelcoming, in this respect, the initiatives of the French and British governments to reduce their EU Member States, especially in the United Kingdom2nuclear arsenals,
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital D
Recital D
D. in particular, strongly encouraged by a number of statements on US nuclear policy made by the then President-elect Barack Obama, in which he underlined that the United States will seek a world in which there are no nuclear weapons,1 and will work with Russia to take US and Russian ballistic missiles off hair- trigger alert, and dramatically reduce the stockpiles of US nuclear weapons and material2, and welcoming the ratification by the USA of the Additional Protocol to the IAEA Safeguards Agreements as a positive, confidence-building step,
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital E
Recital E
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital F
Recital F
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital G
Recital G
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital H
Recital H
H. recognising that moving towards the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons will require bold political leadership and a number of progressive, consecutive steps, which would be facilitated within a framework agreement such as that proposed by the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention, incorporating, reinforcing, linking and building on the agreements, treaties and agencies that make up the existing proliferation and disarmament regime, including inter alia the NPT, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and the International Atomic Energy Agency,
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital I
Recital I
I. considerwelcoming, ing the speech made by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York on 24 October 2008, on the occasion of Unitis respect, the joint British-Norwegian initiative aimed Nations Day, in which he presented his five-point plan for nuclear disarmament, which included a call assessing the feasibility of, and establishing clear procedural steps for, the implementation of the NPT through negotiations on a package of agreements or a nuclear weapons convention, and which highlighted the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention, previously circulated by him, as a useful starting- pointeventual dismantling of nuclear weapons and the verification procedures relating thereto; regarding this initiative as very positive for the EU, for NATO and for other relevant players,
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. pointing to the generalisation of the introduction of "non-proliferation clauses" into the agreements concluded between the EU and third States since 2003,
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital L
Recital L
L. welcoming the signature by over 100 Members of the European Parliament of the "Endorsement of the Nuclear Weapons Convention", a petition initiated by Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non- proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) and taken up by the European Parliament Section of the PNND in July 2008 when commemorating the 40th anniversary of the NPThaving regard to non-proliferation and disarmament initiatives outside the framework of the UN which the EU has endorsed, such as the Proliferation Security Initiative and the G8 World Partnership,
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a
Paragraph 1 – point a
(a) review and update Council Common Position 2005/329/PESC of 25 April 2005 relating to the 2005 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non- Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons1, in preparation for a successful outcome at the 2010 NPT Review Conference, which will further strengthen all three existing pillars of the NPT;
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a c (new)
Paragraph 1 – point a c (new)
(ac) pursue its active support for the creation of an international fuel bank under the control of the IAEA and support further initiatives aimed at the internationalisation of the uranium enrichment cycle;
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a d (new)
Paragraph 1 – point a d (new)
(ad) reinvigorate its support for the generalisation of the Additional Protocols to the IAEA Safeguards Agreements and other steps designed to develop confidence-building measures;
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point b
Paragraph 1 – point b
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point c
Paragraph 1 – point c
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point d
Paragraph 1 – point d
(d) deepen its dialogue with the new US administration and all nuclear-weapons powers, with a view to pursuing a common agenda aimed at the creation of a nuclear- weapons-free world; in particular, support US and Russian steps to substantially reduce their nuclear weapons as agreed in START I and in SORT; press for ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty;
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) actively press for ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), especially in those countries whose ratification is required for the entry into force of the CTBT; actively press for the dismantling, under international control, of all facilities used for the testing of nuclear weapons;
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
(ea) fully support the reinforcement and improvement of means of verification of compliance with all available non- proliferation instruments;
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point e b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point e b (new)
(eb) request an evaluation study of the effectiveness of the use of clauses on non- proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the agreements concluded between the EU and third States;
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point f
Paragraph 1 – point f
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2