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A month later the NPT's quinquennial review conference agreed a 64-point plan intended to reinforce the treaty's three mutually supportive legs: the promise that all countries can share in the non-military benefits of nuclear technology; the agreement by non-weapons states not to become weapons states; and the commitment of the weapons states to pursue nuclear disarmament.

FS Miliband commented that the nuclear weapons states have a credibility problem with the non-nuclear weapons states.

And so all countries — whether they're nuclear weapons states, nonnuclear weapons states or aspiring nuclear weapons states — I think should be very clear about what our approach and our strategy is.

The five weapons states — the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China — promised to eventually disarm and provide nuclear energy technology to non-weapons states.

Some want deeper cuts by the weapons states before they consider tighter rules.

The United States, Russia and China are the three largest nuclear weapons states.

He added: "When the Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed there were five nuclear weapons states.

The Security Council special summit also unanimously approved a resolution calling on nuclear-weapons states to scrap their arsenals.

Of the four new nuclear-weapons states that have emerged in recent decades, three have been Asian—India, Pakistan and North Korea.

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty first took effect in 1970, and it names the United States, the Soviet Union (later Russia, China, Britainn, and France as the only authorized nuclear-weapons states.

Yet many maintain that Article VI does not, in fact, commit nuclear-weapons states to a long-term divestment of those weapons.