The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is a comprehensive ban treaty that seeks to prohibit the very real threat posed by nuclear weapons, with the ultimate goal of their complete global elimination. Canada has yet to sign this treaty.
In the Senate of Canada, I questioned the Government of Canada why it refuses to send observer delegates to the 2nd meeting of State signatories to the TPNW, a global meeting scheduled for Nov 27-Dec1, 2023 at the UN headquarters in NY.
The TPNW opened for signature at the United Nations in New York on September 20th, 2017 and entered into force in January 2021. To date, there are currently 93 signatories, 69 states parties and 4 accessed countries.
Prior to the treaty’s adoption, nuclear weapons were the only weapons of mass destruction not subject to a comprehensive ban, despite their catastrophic, widespread and persistent humanitarian and environmental consequences. The new agreement fills a significant gap in international law.
The Treaty prohibits nations from developing, testing, producing, manufacturing, transferring, possessing, stockpiling, using or threatening to use nuclear weapons, or allowing nuclear weapons to be stationed on their territory. It also prohibits them from assisting, encouraging or inducing anyone to engage in any of these activities.
A nation that possesses nuclear weapons may join the treaty, so long as it agrees to destroy them in accordance with a legally binding, time-bound plan. Similarly, a nation that hosts another nation’s nuclear weapons on its territory may join, so long as it agrees to remove them by a specified deadline.
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