Foreign Minister @HeikoMaas is meeting representatives of 16 countries today at #StockholmDisarmamentMeeting to discuss the Non-Proliferation-Treaty #NPT. What’s on the agenda? (Thread) 1/5
The #NPT has been the cornerstone of the nuclear order for 50 years. Without it, many more states would have nuclear weapons today. It consists of three pillars: 1) non-proliferation 2) disarmament 3) peaceful use of nuclear material 2/5
The problem: The #NPT is undergoing a crisis. The nuclear-weapon states must do more to live up to their responsibility and disarm. At the same time, there is a danger that more states will acquire or have already acquired nuclear weapons (e.g. Iran and North Korea) 3/5
The states represented in Stockholm today are united by one goal: #GlobalZero, a world free of nuclear weapons. The #NPT Review Conference is taking place next year. This is a key milestone. Today, states want to discuss how the Review Conference can be successful. 4/5
The states gathered in Stockholm are pursuing different approaches to achieving #GlobalZero. Some of them want to see an immediate ban on nuclear weapons. The German Government wants concrete, realistic disarmament steps – with the involvement of the nuclear-weapon states. 5/5
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