Washington has been pushing to get both countries to freeze their respective nuclear programs and sign two treaties: the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.
The president said that the solutions will include preventing the production of more nuclear weapons, negotiating a new international treaty and strengthening the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
He said his country has every right as a party to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty to pursue nuclear power to generate electricity.
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The five nuclear powers joined the nuclear non-proliferation treaty as five nuclear powers with a long-term aim of getting rid of those nuclear weapons.
At the beginning of the meeting on Monday, Mr ElBaradei told reporters that Iran and Libya had been in breach of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty.
If that is the case, it is not only Israel that has much to fear if Iran breaks out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to go nuclear.
Mr Olmert, meanwhile, accused Iran of instructing Mr Nasrallah to start a war to distract world attention from Iran's apparent effort to flout the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and build a nuclear bomb.
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The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty called for the major nuclear powers to disarm gradually and for smaller countries to forego new nuclear arsenals.
Brazil is a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty since 1998 as a non-nuclear weapons state.
The two important points to consider are that Iran has indeed signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and that in order to go nuclear, whether for civilian or military purposes, you need to enrich uranium.
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In a statement agreed at a meeting in Luxembourg on Monday, they called on Iran to conclude and implement urgently and unconditionally an additional protocol to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty allowing for short-notice inspections of suspected nuclear sites.
We helped to win the indefinite extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, a powerful global barrier to the spread of nuclear weapons and their technology.
Hitherto NSG rules barred nuclear commerce with any country that had not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) or had not put all its nuclear industry under safeguards operated by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear guardian.
The IAEA charter stipulates that in the event that there is any evidence that a state signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is acting in a non-transparent manner regarding its nuclear activities, that state must be referred to the Security Council.
In May, its foreign minister, Kamal Kharrazi, told the five-yearly review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that his country had a right under the NPT to a variety of nuclear technologies and was determined to use them.
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was ratified in 1970 and reaffirmed by its signatories 10 years ago.
Which brings us to the importance of their having signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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In 1992, China acceded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, whose extension China later supported in 1995.
All this month, the fate of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has been under discussion at the UN.
Mr Blair denies charges that he is violating Britain's commitment to disarmament under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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Iran has signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty but not the brand-new protocol that allows for intrusive inspections.
The country has excluded sales to India because it is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Then, the United States supported a deeply problematic final document at the just-completed Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference.
Together, we are keeping our commitments under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which must be the foundation for global non-proliferation.
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The country does not sell uranium to India because it is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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On Friday, the UN's monthlong Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference is scheduled to adopt a consensual resolution before adjourning.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, which monitors compliance with the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, used to employ Iraqis in sensitive positions.
Several countries in the Middle East have refused to sign the Chemical Weapons Convention until Israel signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
But Iran says since it signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, it should be able to enrich uranium for peaceful energy needs.
Iran would probably withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, under which its uranium is watched by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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