The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons works with other groups, such as Reaching Critical Will, to monitor government statements in relation to the need for a treaty banning nuclear weapons. Below are excerpts from some of those statements.

Australia

“The eventual abolition of nuclear weapons may require, at an appropriate time, complementary legal frameworks, including a possible nuclear weapons convention.” — Valerie Grey, May 6, 2009

“At an appropriate time, the international community will likely need to consider complementary legal frameworks, including a possible nuclear weapons convention, for the eventual abolition of nuclear weapons.” — Craig McLachlan, April 30, 2008

Austria

“Austria supports the idea of a nuclear weapons convention equipped with a sophisticated verification mechanism.” — Austrian President Heinz Fischer, September 24, 2009

Cameroon

“Cameroon also supports the call for the immediate launching of multilateral negotiations with the aim of creating a convention for banning the development, testing, construction, storage, transportation, use or the threat of the use of nuclear arms and for their elimination.” — Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, October 12, 2009

China

“The international community should develop, at an appropriate time, a viable, long-term plan composed of phased actions, including the conclusion of a convention on the complete prohibition of nuclear weapons, so as to attain the ultimate goal of complete and thorough nuclear disarmament under effective international supervision.” — Ambassador Wang Qun, October 6, 2009

India

“I reiterate India’s proposal for a nuclear weapons convention prohibiting the development, production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons and providing for their complete elimination within a specified time frame.” — Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, September 26, 2009

“India attaches the highest priority to the goal of nuclear disarmament ... We believe that just as it was possible to prohibit chemical and biological weapons through non-discriminatory and global international conventions, global nuclear disarmament is not only possible but that global security would be enhanced by a nuclear-weapon-free world.” — Ambassador Ali Rao, October 8, 2009

Iran

“We continue to believe in the need for negotiations on a phased programme for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons within a specified time limit, including a nuclear weapons convention. In this regard, we reiterate our call for the establishment, as the highest priority and as soon as possible, of an ad hoc committee on nuclear disarmament, with the mandate of real negotiations, in the Conference on Disarmament. Such negotiations must lead to legally prohibit, once and for all, the possession, development, stockpiling of nuclear weapons by any country and provide for the destruction of such inhuman weapons. Pending the conclusion of a nuclear weapons convention, the nuclear-weapon states must honour their obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and immediately stop any kind of development and research on nuclear weapons; any threat of use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear-weapon states; any modernization of nuclear weapons and their facilities; deployment of nuclear weapons in the territories of other countries; [and] maintaining their nuclear weapons in the trigger-alert situation.” — Reza Najafi, October 15, 2009

Morocco

Morocco supports “establishing a programme for the destruction of nuclear arms according to a timeline and, to achieve this objective, the creation of a subsidiary agency for the nuclear disarmament in the Conference on Disarmament.” — October 14, 2009

Philippines

“The Philippines supports the calls for irreversible and complete elimination of nuclear weapons under international supervision. It is prepared to examine proposals for a phased process leading to the ultimate objective of achieving total nuclear disarmament and to secure the agreements under a nuclear convention.” — Ambassador Hlario G. Davide, Jr., October 15, 2009

Non-Aligned Movement

“The Non-Aligned Movement emphasizes the necessity to start negotiations on a phased programme for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons with a specified framework of time, including a nuclear weapons convention ... There should be a prohibition on their development, production, acquisition, testing, stockpiling, transfer, use or threat of use, and provision for their destruction.” — October 14, 2009

UN Secretary-General

“I urge like-minded states to facilitate the adoption of agreed measures on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. In this regard, I encourage Member States [of the UN] to seriously consider the proposal by Costa Rica and Malaysia for a nuclear weapon convention.” — December 8, 2009

“I urge all Non-Proliferation Treaty parties, in particular the nuclear-weapon states, to fulfil their obligation under the Treaty to undertake negotiations on effective measures leading to nuclear disarmament. They could pursue this goal by agreement on a framework of separate, mutually reinforcing instruments. Or they could consider negotiating a nuclear weapons convention, backed by a strong system of verification, as has long been proposed at the United Nations. Upon the request of Costa Rica and Malaysia, I have circulated to all UN Member States a draft of such a convention, which offers a good point of departure.” — October 24, 2008