Topic: Recommendations for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review
Country: Pakistan
Delegate Name: Karl Hillenbrand
School: Fishers High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Pakistan position papers GLIMUN 2014 committees
Pakistan firmly believes that there is no way in the current state of the Middle East that any nuclear free zone should be created based on the fact that several states are under pressure from domestic fighting and conflict. Pakistan feels that the treaty is an infringement on national sovereignty.
Pakistan is disgruntled by the United Nations even considering creating a treaty of a nuclear free zone and should be dropped based on the situation unfolding in the Middle East and the crisis there. Although Pakistan is disappointed by the mention of trying to create a treaty of a nuclear free zone in the Middle East Pakistan recognizes the potential of terror groups acquiring WMDs jeopardizing the region and would like to ask the focus be on problems of protecting current stockpiles and assessing any states ability to defend those stockpiles. Pakistan is still firmly against any treaty in the Middle East based on India’s unwillingness to admit their stockpile numbers or nuclear capabilities by not signing the treaty.
Pakistan would be interested in countries that have extremely large stockpiles of WMD to limit those stockpiles while still holding a deterrent for aggression against their state. Countries like France and the United States still have significant capacities far greater than anything several countries could create and places heavy requirements on other nations when it comes to restriction on WMDs. This balance of power is so strongly in a few countries hands that the main point of the NPT is overlooked and sidestepped by only a few countries controlling the main focus of WMDs in the world and not limiting stockpiles that they possess.
Pakistan believes that any outside involvement in our nuclear program whether that be disarmament or inspection is an infringement on our national sovereignty and our right to our own production of energy or weapons. Although Pakistan is interested in considering the treaty, in its current state, there are significant problems with the treaty that would infringe on national sovereignty and national security. Pakistan would recommend that more consideration go into countries that would like to see a reduction of weapons to a certain extent but still maintain nation privacy and security.
Lastly Pakistan feels that as it currently stands the NPT is an unfair treaty that takes advantage of countries that created nuclear weapons after the middle 20th century and feels that this is unequal to separate the countries into states that have weapons and states that do not have weapons.
Works Cited
"South Asia: Pakistan." Central Intelligence Agency. Central Intelligence Agency, n.d. Web. 13 Nov. 2014.
V.paul, Jipson. "Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons in Pakistan." Articlesbase.com. Articlesbase.com, 30 Jan. 2009. Web. 13 Nov. 2014.
