U.S. Relations With the People's Republic of China (2008)

U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva

COMPLIANCE AND THE TREATY ON THE NON-PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Working paper submitted by the United States of America

Second Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2010 Review Conference
of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

May 2, 2008

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Compliance Challenges in North Korea

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The United States remains committed to achieving the verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in a peaceful, diplomatic manner via the Six-Party Talks -- which includes China, the DPRK, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Russia, and the United States. On September 19, 2005, the Six Parties issued a Joint Statement under which the DPRK committed to abandoning all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs and returning, at an early date, to the NPT and to IAEA safeguards.

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Compliance Challenges in Iran

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Iran has rebuffed repeated diplomatic efforts during the past five years. First, Iran rejected efforts by the United Kingdom, France, and Germany by abrogating the Paris Agreement that it signed with these powers in November 2004. It continues to reject the diplomatic offer made when these three countries joined with the United States, Russia, and China in June 2006, in a new effort to offer Iran a diplomatic solution to the crisis that its nuclear activities had created. Rather than work to resolve these issues, Iran has spurned the package of incentives these countries offered and repeatedly has refused to suspend its uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities.

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