Topic: Recommendations for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review
Country: Haiti
Delegate Name: Norah Fanning
School: Forest Hills Northern High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Haiti position papers GLIMUN 2014 committees
Haiti has always held firmly to the belief that a peaceful world cannot exist where there are nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD). It demonstrated its desire to create this peaceful world by adding it’s signature to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in July of 1968 and by signing the Treaty of Tlatelolco in efforts to create a nuclear-free zone in Latin America and the Caribbean. It recognizes that the main job and objective of the United Nations is to create and maintain an environment of international peace and security and strongly believes that the NPT is an essential piece of the solution.
While in reality, the complete and safe removal of all WMDs may be a challenging and long process, and that progress to date has been less than pleasing, it is important to collaborate and think long term in order to be successful in the future. Haiti will strongly support all efforts to safely remove nuclear weapons from unstable countries but another reality is that Haiti does not currently have the resources to implement such programs on its own. For the safety of the world, Haiti will rely strongly on the help of larger and more prosperous countries to achieve this goal. It looks to Nuclear Weapon States such as the United States to pursue the goal of full disarmament as a matter of urgency.
It encourages education of the public in unstable nuclear states such as Israel, where discussion of nuclear weapons and their possible catastrophic effect is discussed only by a small number of people, who frequently know only one part of the picture. Without public discussion or criticism, these decision makers do not have to refer to different positions of the public or receive information that could be vital to the decision-making process. Without a strong incentive or public unrest about the issue, it doesn’t become the important and pressing topic that it should be. Once there is an informed and united public, it will be more difficult for these countries to be passive on the issue of nuclear disarmament. It is also essential that countries become more transparent with all nuclear weapons so that they can be effectively kept track of and contained. These is the only way to ensure the safety and prosperity of the world for the future.
