Topic: Recommendations for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review
Country: Brazil
Delegate Name: Emily Livermore
School: East Grand Rapids High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Brazil position papers GLIMUN 2014 committees
Brazil believes that the NPT is essential to ensure that nuclear disarmament is relentlessly pursued and ultimately achieved. Brazil acknowledges the NPT’s success concerning non-proliferation. However, Brazil has not seen as much commitment to elimination of nuclear weapons. Brazil wants NWS’s to realize that it is in their best interest to be a part of a world without nuclear weapons and therefore without tension[1].
In 1994 Brazil signed the Treaty of Tlatelolco in efforts to create a nuclear-free zone in Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition to this action, Brazil also has demonstrated commitment to peace within its own borders. Experts from Argentina are allowed to enter all nuclear installations in Brazil. In fact, Brazil clarified in its own constitution that the nuclear program is solely in place for peaceful purposes. Brazil is one of very few countries to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect its military facilities[2]. All of these efforts are Brazil’s ways of demonstrating dedication to peace and Brazil encourages other nations to participate in similar actions.
As we proceed in reviewing the NPT, Brazil finds it crucial that we move toward complete elimination of nuclear weapons and assure that they will not reappear later as technology continues to develop and advance. Brazil urges nations to pursue policies and actions that move in the direction of nuclear weapon elimination. Brazil would also like to acknowledge the difficulty of this is particular regions of the world. Little progress has been made in the Middle East concerning nuclear-free zones but Brazil would like to see that change[3]. Despite the difficulties, Brazil finds it is in the best interest of the states to continue with the objective of complete elimination. Brazil commends the belief of the New Agenda Coalition (NAC) that what does not exist cannot proliferate[4]. Therefore, as the review of the NPT continues it must be strengthened so the focus is on complete and permanent nuclear disarmament.
1 Ambassador Antonio Guerreiro “General Debate of the NPT PrepCom”, Geneva, Switzerland. 23, April, 2013.
2 Antonio Ramalho, Professor of International Relations, University of Brasilia. Personal Interview, May 19, 2010.
3 Ambassador Antonio Guerreiro “General Debate of the NPT PrepCom”, Geneva, Switzerland. 24, April, 2013.
4 Ambassador Antonio Guerreiro
