4 Amendments of André BRIE related to 2008/2324(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital A
Recital A
A. strongly concerned about the lack of progress in achieving concrete objectives (such as the so-called "13 steps"1) in pursuit of the goals of the NPT Treaty, arejection by the nuclear weapons States in 2005 of the action programme consisting of 13 specific steps agreed on at the previous Review Conferenceew conference in 2000, concerning in particular the undertakings given regarding full dismantling of nuclear arsenals, 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 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). 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, distance themselves from an inequitable and anachronistic concept of security, under which domestic nuclear weapons are considered a legitimate and indispensable element in ensuring the safety of their holders and international stability and decrease their adherence to a military doctrine of nuclear deterrence,
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital D c (new)
Recital D c (new)
Dc. welcoming the plans of US President Obama to convene the most ambitious arms reduction talks with Russia for a generation, aimed at reducing each country's stockpiles of nuclear weapons by 80% and cutting the number of nuclear warheads to 1 000 each; welcoming the review of the Bush administration's plan for a US missile defence shield in the Czech Republic and Poland,
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital D d (new)
Recital D d (new)
Dd. expecting US President Obama to reverse the Bush doctrine on pre-emption, particularly because the use of tactical nuclear weapons in pre-emptive strikes is not excluded,