The document reiterated the importance of implementing Article VI nuclear disarmament obligations as essential to the welfare of the NPT and nonproliferation regime. In advance of the 2018 NPT Preparatory Committee, New Zealand submitted a working paper ( NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.13) on behalf of NAC. Bassem Hassan, spoke on behalf of the NAC at the First Committee of the UN General Assembly in support of the NAC draft resolution submitted in 2018 which supports the implementation of commitments to nuclear disarmament. On 21 October, the Permanent Mission of Egypt, Mr.
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On 26 April, in advance of the 2019 NTP Preparatory Committee, Brazil on behalf of the NAC submitted a working paper ( NPT/CONF.2020/PC.III/WP.35) in support of the full implementation of the NPT and the establishment of a Middle East nuclear-weapon-free-zone. On 27 January the New Agenda Coalition released a statement conveying its concern about the modernization of nuclear weapons programs by nuclear-weapons States and called for/emphasized the importance of complete nuclear disarmament. On 11 October South Africa released a statement on behalf of the New Agenda Coalition at the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly advocating for clear and complete nuclear disarmament and reminded the obligation of nuclear weapon States under Article VI of the NPT to strive for the elimination of nuclear weapons. The statement reiterated NAC’s goal of achieving total international nuclear disarmament, proclaimed NAC’s support for the TPNW, and displayed NAC’s concern for the lack of progress on the NPT’s disarmament obligations. On 14 October, the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations delivered a statement on behalf of NAC at the General Debate of the First Committee of the 75th United Nations General Assembly. Decisions are made by consensus, which requires agreement, but not unanimity. The NAC does not have a formal constitution or permanent secretariat, and its administration is non-hierarchical. The first NAC Ministerial Meeting was held on 9 June 1998 in Dublin, Ireland. Today, the New Agenda Coalition (NAC) is a ministerial-level group of states within the framework of the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) focused on building international consensus to make progress on nuclear disarmament, as legally called for in the Nonproliferation Treaty. The NAC’s joint declaration and following United Nations resolution outlined their new agenda for nuclear disarmament. NNWS believed the NWS were not upholding their Article VI commitments sufficiently enough to warrant the extension of the NPT. Founded by Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, and Slovenia (the latter two subsequently left the Coalition) in June 1998 with the Joint Declaration (sometimes called the Eight Nation Declaration), the New Agenda Coalition (NAC) is a group of geographically diverse, middle power countries which formed in response to the divide between nuclear weapon states (NWS) and non-nuclear weapon states (NNWS) during negotiations regarding the indefinite extension of the NPT during 1995 Review Conference.
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