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MEDIA RELEASE

18 December 2009

Commission Report Launched in Tokyo: Towards a Nuclear Weapon Free World

The Report of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, “Eliminating Nuclear Threats: A Practical Agenda for Global Policymakers”, was presented on 15 December 2009 in Tokyo to the Prime Ministers of Australia and Japan, Kevin Rudd and Yukio Hatoyama, by the Commission Co-Chairs, former foreign ministers Gareth Evans and Yoriko Kawaguchi, at a ceremony at the Japanese Prime Minister’s residence.
The full text of the report is available online at www.icnnd.org

The 230-page report, the most comprehensive of its kind yet produced, is the unanimous product of an independent global panel of fifteen commissioners.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said at the launch, “this report, I believe, represents an important framework for discussions and debate on non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament in what will be a critical year in 2010. President Obama has called a nuclear security summit in Washington in April of next year. We have the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NTP) review conference due in May next year.”
Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said also at the launch, “Japanese government welcomes the report which leads the way to the world peace. I hope the report, which is ahead of the awareness of Japanese and Australian Governments, will not only guide the two Governments, but also guide the whole world. ”

The report describes, not just rhetorically but in the detail that policymakers need, how that opportunity can and should be seized.

The report evaluates in detail the threats and risks associated with the failure to persuade existing nuclear-armed states to relinquish their weapons, to prevent new states acquiring them, to stop terrorist actors gaining access to them, and to properly manage a rapid expansion in civil nuclear energy.


For media contact: Elif Barutçuoğlu-Wade, Australian Embassy, Ankara
elif.barutcuoglu-wade@dfat.gov.au Tel: 0312-4599504 Cep: 0532 2166256