Want China Times, Xinhua 2015-04-25
China's top legislature on Friday ratified the protocol to the Treaty on Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (NWFZ) in Central Asia.
The 14th session of the 12th NPC Standing Committee held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, April 24. (File photo/Xinhua) |
China's top legislature on Friday ratified the protocol to the Treaty on Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (NWFZ) in Central Asia.
After
approving the protocol, the National People's Congress Standing Committee
declared that no security protocol or treaty will undermine the status of the
NWFZ, and that all explanations and applications of the clauses in the protocol
shall support the goal of the building of the NWFZ in Central Asia.
The
protocol was signed by representatives of China, France, Russia, the United
Kingdom and the United States on May 6, 2014 in New York.
The
protocol provides legally-binding assurances not to use or threaten to use
nuclear weapons against parties to the NWFZ parties.
Enacted in
2009, the treaty commits the signatories, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, to refrain from developing, acquiring or
possessing nuclear weapons.
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