20 Amendments of Nickolay MLADENOV related to 2008/2324(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Citation 4
Citation 4
– having regard to its resolution of 5 June 2008 on implementation of the European Security Strategy and ESDP1 and particularly paragraph 26 thereof, which expresses Parliament's opinion that "the 40th anniversary of the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT) on 1 July 2008 must be seen as an opportunity for the EU to promote the need for nuclear disarmament in its Strategy Against the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, with a view to the Preparatory Committees for the forthcoming NPT review conference" and reiterates its view that "this includes the need for the 'recognised' nuclear weapons powers to put forward disarmament initiatives, to make Europe a nuclear- weapon-free zone, and to conclude a global convention banning nuclear weapons",
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
Amendment 8 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
– having regard to the UN Security Council resolutions relating to issues of non proliferation and nuclear disarmament, especially resolution 1540 (2004),
Amendment 9 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Citation 7
Citation 7
– having regard to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, the IAEA Comprehensive Safeguards Agreements and Additional Protocols, the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism, the Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation, the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I), which will expire in 2009, and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT),
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. stressing the importance of issues of nuclear proliferation and the peaceful use of nuclear energy which both constitute, apart from disarmament, main pillars of the NPT,
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery, both to state and non-state actors, represents one of the most serious threats to international stability and security,
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. recalling the commitment of the EU to make use of all instruments at its disposal to prevent, deter, halt and if possible eliminate proliferation programmes causing concern at global level, as clearly expressed by the EU Strategy against proliferation of WMD adopted by the European Council on 12 December 2003,
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital A e (new)
Recital A e (new)
Ae. stressing the need for the EU to intensify efforts to counter proliferation flows and proliferation financing, to sanction acts of proliferation and to develop measures to prevent intangible transfers of knowledge and know-how via all instruments available including multilateral treaties and verification mechanisms, national and internationally coordinated export controls, cooperative threat reduction programmes and political and economic levers,
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. welcoming the EU support given to the IAEA initiative for the internationalisation of the nuclear fissile cycle initiative, to the monitoring and verification system applied by the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) and to the Zangger Committee (NPT Exporters Committee),
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital F
Recital F
F. welcoming the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol initiative, presented by Mayors for Peace to the Preparatory Committee of the Eighth NPT Review Conference in May 2008 in Geneva, which has already gained the endorsement of over 500 city representatives as a logical follow-up to their five-year-long plea for a world free of nuclear weapons as from 2020: the so- called "2020 Vision",
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital G
Recital G
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital I
Recital I
I. considering the speech made by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York on 24 October 2008, on the occasion of United Nations Day, in which he presented his five-point plan for nuclear disarmament, which included a call 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-point,
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital K
Recital K
K. welcoming the speech made on 9 December 2008 by Javier Solana, EU High Representative for the CFSP, at a conference on "Peace and Disarmament: A World without Nuclear Weapons", in which he welcomed the fact that the question of nuclear disarmament has again moved to the top of the international agenda, and underlined the need for the EU to mainstream non-proliferation in its overall policies,
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point a b (new)
(ab) make substantial progress on the G8 Partnership initiative, the Proliferation Security Initiative and the Global Threat Reduction Initiative, and push for the early entry into force of the CTBT; approve expeditiously the Joint Action on the IAEA nuclear fuel bank and related measures within the Instrument for Stability;
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point c
Paragraph 1 – point c
Amendment 61 #
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 thprogressive creaduction of athe nuclear- weapons-free worldarheads stockpile; 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 75 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point f
Paragraph 1 – point f
(f) establish a constructive dialogue with all countries possessing nuclear weapons on European territory – as well as with NATO – with a view to making the European continent progressively a nuclear-weapons-free zone, in accordance with Article VII of the NPT, well before the year 2020;
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Pledges to submit the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention to the national parliaments of the Member States with a view to promoting negotiations, raising public awareness, combating nuclear proliferation, identifying steps towards nuclear disarmament and indicating national measures that could be taken to support and implement that Convention;