Statement by the United States at the 2015 NPT RevCon on security assurances

Statement by the United States at the 2015 NPT RevCon on security assurances

The statement emphasizes the importance of negative security assurances provided by nuclear-weapon states to non-nuclear-weapon states. It reaffirms United States’ supports of the establishment of nuclear-weapon-free zones and its willingness to adopt protocols extending negative security assurances to these zones. The statement also clarifies the positive security assurances provided by the US to NPT NNWS in cases of threats or attacks from NWS.