B4-0364, 0386, 0413/94

Resolution on nuclear testing and the United Nations General Assembly's debate on disarmament

The European Parliament,

-having regard to its resolutions of 11 March 1993 on stopping tests by the nuclear powers, of 24 June 1993 on the moratoria on nuclear testing and of 29 September 1994 on illegal trafficking in nuclear materials,

-having regard to the joint action by the Council within the framework of the common foreign and security policy to achieve the definitive and unconditional extension of the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in view of the International Conference that will open in 1995,

A.having taken note of the proposal currently under discussion in the United Nations General Assembly to recommend complete, general nuclear disarmament,

B.reaffirming that a comprehensive nuclear test ban is one important objective of the international community in the field of disarmament and non-proliferation,

C.profoundly concerned by the nuclear tests still being carried out by the People's Republic of China, which is thus failing to comply with international moratoria, although its foreign minister has declared that the Chinese Government would be willing to sign a test ban treaty,

1.Calls on the United Nations General Assembly to adopt resolutions on the elimination of weapons of mass destruction and on the negotiation of a global test ban treaty;

2.Calls on the countries that are signatory to the TNP to make a commitment to the 1995 TNP Conference and the indefinite and unconditional extension of the Non-proliferation Treaty, with a view to achieving an international treaty totally banning nuclear tests and prohibiting the production of nuclear weapons, subject to the strictest international monitoring;

3.Urges all states participating in the Conference on Disarmament to make a similar commitment;

4.Calls imperatively on the People's Republic of China to join in the international moratorium on nuclear testing;

5.Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Commission, the Council, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, the President and Secretary-General of the United Nations General Assembly, the Chairman of the United Nations Geneva Conference on Disarmament and the Government of the People's Republic of China.