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Japan Says to Make Proposal on Full Compliance With NPTJapan said Monday that it tended to make a proposal to the Sates Parties on several specific points which are essential to the full and expeditious implementation of the Principles and Objectives of 1995 and the full compliance with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).The statement was made by Ichita Yamamoto, state secretary for foreign affairs of Japan at the general debate of the 2000 NPT Review Conference which is held at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York from April 24 to May 19. Yamamoto said nuclear non-proliferation has clearly suffered a setback since 1995 due to several events, namely, the nuclear tests conducted in South Asia, the delay in the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)'s entry into force even after three and a half years since it was opened for signature, the failure to commence the Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty negotiations despite the agreement to do so at the Geneva Conference on Disarmament in 1995, and the launching of missiles by several countries. In the face of these unfavorable circumstances, this Review Conference was all the more important, he said, adding, "This meeting is the first Review Conference since the NPT was indefinitely extended, and is considered a touchstone as to whether the NPT can preserve and even enhance its credibility and its universality." Yamamoto said Japan welcomed Russia's recent ratification of START II as an encouraging step, and called upon it and the United States to commence negotiations on START III at the earliest date possible. Saying that the CTBT and the Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty were the two important pillars of the NPT regime, Yamamoto welcomed Russia's Duma's adoption of the bill for the CTBT ratification last week and urged key countries, including the United States and China, to ratify it as early as possible. According to diplomats, Japan's intended proposal will include the completion by 2003 or 2005 as the latest negotiations on a cut-off treaty banning the production of nuclear fissile materials, and the early implementation of the CTBT on nuclear weapons.
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