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.
's atomic energy agency first declared that Iran was violating the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, Obama pretends legitimizing those same nuclear-proliferating fascists makes it more likely the clock will stop ticking.
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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Iran's foreign minister told the five-yearly review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that his country had every right to pursue nuclear technologies, including uranium enrichment, and was determined to do so.
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.
Some officials even muse privately about nuclear contacts with India, despite the global rules that ban nuclear help for and trade with countries that, like India and Pakistan, refuse to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or else reject full international safeguards on their nuclear industry.
By threatening to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1994, he secured two western-designed nuclear power plants.
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.
When the Pyongyang announced that it was withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty in 1993, the immediate fear was that a nuclear capability was being developed for use against the South.
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.
Together with Obama administration officials' calls for Israel to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty - which would compel Israel to relinquish its purported nuclear arsenal - and their stated interest in having Israel sign the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty - which would arguably force Israel to allow international inspections of its nuclear facility in Dimona - Obama's planned nuclear conclave will place Israel in an untenable position.
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.
As a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran had a right to enrich uranium for a peaceful nuclear program.
Even if these countries do join, they can violate the treaty--as Iraq and North Korea have done with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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Hence India refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and has ruled out signing a Comprehensive Test Ban, unless all other nuclear powers do.
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 framework collapsed, and the North Koreans pulled out of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and...
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was ratified in 1970 and reaffirmed by its signatories 10 years ago.
At the end of last year, North Korea pulled out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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.
It has been pretty much unconstrained since it walked out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2003.
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