The final preparatory meeting for next year's review of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty ended Friday with deep divisions, and US Ambassador Robert Wood said reaching agreement at the 2020 conference "will be an incredibly difficult task." But he told the closing session of the two-week preparatory conference that "it is a task we cannot abandon." Treaty members every nation but India, Pakistan and North Korea who possess nuclear weapons, and Israel which is believed to be a nuclear power but has never acknowledged it gather every five years to review how it's working. Hussin also singled out differences between nuclear weapon and non-nuclear weapon states on disarmament. Delegates to the preparatory conference rejected two sets of recommendations for the review conference so Hussin issued a final document called "reflections of the chair."

Source: dna May 11, 2019 06:33 UTC