Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education

Disarmament JAPAN
@global_forum

24th United Nations Conference on
Disarmament Issues in Shizuoka
(January 2013)

Global Forum on Disarmament and
Non-Proliferation Education
(August 2012)

JAPAN'S EFFORTS ON DISARMAMENT AND NON-PROLIFERATION

As the only country to have suffered atomic bombings, Japan has been leading the international discussion on disarmament and non-proliferation. Japan has been promoting real change by calling on all nuclear weapon states to take measures toward nuclear disarmament while increasing transparency in military armaments.

• Statement by H.E. Mr. Mari Amano Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Japan to the Conference on Disarmament At the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of NPT - CLUSTER II: SPECIFIC ISSUES - - MIDDLE EAST - (April 29, 2013)
• STATEMENT BY AMBASSADOR MITSURU KITANO DIRECTOR-GENERAL, DISARMAMENT, NON-PROLIFERATION AND SCIENCE DEPARTMENT MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF JAPAN SECOND SESSION OF THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR THE 2015 REVIEW CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES TO THE TREATY ON THE NON-PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS (NPT) - CLUSTER II -(April 26, 2013)
• Detection of Xenon Exceeding Normal Concentrations at the CTBT Radionuclide Monitoring Station in Takasaki (April 23, 2013)
• Statement by Ambassador Mitsuru Kitano, Director-General, Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Science Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan at the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the NPT(April 22, 2013)（PDF））
• Statement on behalf Australia,Canada,Chile,Germany,Japan,Mexico,The Netherlands,Poland,Turkey,and the United Arab Emirates, members of Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative(NPDI)(April 22, 2013)（PDF））
• Statement of the 6th Ministerial Meeting of the NPDI [PDF] (April 9, 2013)
• The Adoption of the Arms Trade Treaty Overview and Assessment(Overview and Assessment) (April 3, 2013)
• PRESS RELEASE BY THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF ARGENTINA, AUSTRALIA, COSTA RICA, FINLAND, JAPAN, KENYA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM(March 18, 2013)
• Final United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty(March 25, 2013)
• Ninth Asian Senior-level Talks on Non-Proliferation (ASTOP-IX) (March 13, 2013)
• Joint Working Papers Submitted by the NPDI to the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 NPT Review Conference [PDF](March 6, 2013 )
• Opening of an International Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons (February 28, 2013)
• The NPDI Joint Statement on North Korea's nuclear test (February 14, 2013)
• Joint Statement by the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the seven co-authors statesof the General Assembly Resolution on the Arms Trade Treaty (24th December 2012)
• Adoption of the Draft Resolutions on Nuclear Disarmament and Small Arms Submitted by Japan at the Plenary Session of the United Nations General Assembly (December 4, 2012)

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