From the UN NPT Bulletin: The 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) will be held in May 2010 at UN Headquarters in New York. The President-elect of the Review Conference is Ambassador Libran N. Cabactulan of the Philippines.

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In a speech today on the Obama administration’s nuclear weapons policy, U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden is expected to call on the Senate to finally ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Wall Street Journal reported (see GSN, Feb. 17).

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Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) Japanese member Hideo Hiraoka and 203 other Japanese legislators sent a letter today to US President Obama (copied to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and key leaders in the US Congress) with regard to the US Nuclear Posture Review and the forthcoming NPT Review Conference.

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The Atlanta Consultation III was hosted by President Jimmy Carter at the Carter Center in Atlanta and was attended by diplomats from twenty nations including nuclear weapon states (UK and US), and representatives of the international and non-governmental organizations such as the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament, the Two Futures Project, the Carnegie Corporation and the Nobel Peace laureates and several other organizations, who all worked together during the two-day conference.

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