Statement by the US at the 2024 NPT PrepCom Subsidiary Body 4 on Effective International Arrangements to Assure Non-nuclear-weapon States Against the Use or Threat of Use of Nuclear Weapons (Geneva, Aug. 2024)

Statement by the US at the 2024 NPT PrepCom Subsidiary Body 4 on Effective International Arrangements to Assure Non-nuclear-weapon States Against the Use or Threat of Use of Nuclear Weapons (Geneva, Aug. 2024)

The statement notes the US position on NSA, that the only states that do not fall under U.S. NSA are those that have nuclear weapons that remain outside the NPT or are not in compliance with their nonproliferation obligations. It stated that the U.S. have long believed that the protocols to the regional nuclear weapon free zone treaties provide the most expeditious and practical way to extend legally binding negative security assurances. It concludes that between the global NSA contained in its U.S. Nuclear Posture Review and the corresponding legally-binding NSAs in nuclear weapon free zones, there is little need or utility in negotiating an additional legal instrument on this topic.