15. Also recommends that parliaments urge their governments to start multilateral negotiations

on a verifiable, robust, non-discriminatory and multilateral treaty banning the production of

fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices;

16. Encourages parliaments in States possessing nuclear weapons to demand, in keeping with

Article VI of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, deeper and faster action on disarmament and

increased transparency from their governments in relation to nuclear weapons arsenals,

stockpiled fissile material, and information on related programmes and spending

17. Invites parliaments, pending a fissile material cut-off treaty, to encourage their governments

who have not yet done so to establish a moratorium on the production of fissile material by

unilaterally ceasing such production and dismantling their production facilities;

18. Encourages parliaments to work with their governments in the pursuit of confidence-

building measures, including by eliminating the role of nuclear weapons in security doctrines

and policies;

19. Also encourages the parliaments of nuclear-weapon-possessing States to demand, in

accordance with Action 5(e) of the Final Document of the 2010 NPT Review Conference, a

reduction in the operational status of nuclear weapons;

20. Further encourages parliaments to strengthen existing nuclear-weapon-free zones and to

support their expansion and the establishment of new zones;

21. Calls on parliamentarians to support the convening, at the earliest possible date, of a

conference for a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction, to be attended by all

States in the region on the basis of arrangements freely arrived at;

22. Urges parliaments to demand the return to substantive work of the United Nations

Conference on Disarmament;

23. Reiterates the need to reach an early agreement in the Conference on Disarmament on an

effective, universal, unconditional and legally binding instrument in order to give assurances

to non-nuclear States regarding the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons;

24. Calls on parliamentarians to use the IPU as a global forum to focus political attention on the

need for effective, verifiable and irreversible nuclear disarmament, and on concrete and

practical actions that can be taken in the immediate future to advance this goal.

* The delegation of the Russian Federation expressed reservations on operative paragraphs 1 and 2.

The delegation of India expressed reservations on operative paragraphs 6, 7 and 17. The delegation

of the Islamic Republic of Iran expressed reservations on preambular paragraphs 11 and 21 and on

operative paragraphs 11, 12 and 15. The delegation of Pakistan expressed reservations on

preambular paragraphs 7, 10 and 20 and on operative paragraphs 6, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17 and 19.

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