Thread by @nuclearban

🧵The #NPTRevCon is starting tomorrow at the UN headquarters in NYC, read the thread below to learn more about it ⬇️

1/ It’s the review conference of the #NPT, which prohibits its 186 non-nuclear-weapon states parties from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, while obliging its five nuclear-weapon states parties🇨🇳🇫🇷🇷🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸 to pursue nuclear disarmament. #NPTRevCon

2/ However, the #NPT does not outlaw nuclear weapons nor prohibit their use. It also does not provide any timelines for when the nuclear armed states are to achieve nuclear disarmament. States parties have failed to adopt a new plan for its implementation for more than a decade.

3/ Seven years after the previous NPT review conference failed to adopt a final agreement or agree on implementation steps, the 2022 conference will be in even more challenging and dangerous circumstances:

4/➡️Russia invading Ukraine and threatening to use nuclear weapons.
➡️Nuclear-armed states in the treaty increasing their arsenals and their expenditure and modernizing their weapons.
➡️Failure of nuclear umbrella states to reduce their reliance on nuclear weapons. #NPTRevCon

5/ Good news🎉
There’s also an emerging counter-movement taking place! The #NPT meeting follows the successful adoption of the #1MSP Declaration condemning all #nuclearthreats and the Action Plan, a concrete plan to eliminate nuclear weapons through the #nuclearban treaty!

6/ More good news🎉
Over 90 states have either signed or ratified this treaty; this will likely be the largest group of states in the #NPTRevCon with a common agenda and is expected to grow over the coming months.
#nuclearban