09+Ukraine

**Country**: Ukraine The Nuclear Arms race began in 1945. In the 1960's the United States and the Soviet Union began to discuss [|"an international agreement that would prohibit the further spread of nuclear weapons without banning the utilization of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. The result was the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons."]The international community was separated into two catorgies of states: non-nuclear states and nuclear states. The nuclear states (U.S. China, France, and Soviet Union, United Kingdom) signed that they would slowly reduce the production. Now, this is speculation that Pakistan, India, Israel, North Korea, and Iran have nuclear power.
 * Topic**: Nuclear Proliferation
 * Committee**: #9
 * Name**: Caylee Cunningham
 * Period:** 0
 * A Brief Background of the Topic: **

The UN is involved because the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons was signed by most countries. The UN stills stands by its point to eventually disarm the nuclear weapons. The first Treaty for Nuclear Disarm net was the Limited Test-Ban Treaty of 1963. Since October 24, 1996, a Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) has been out. However some countries disagree with it.
 * United Nations Involvement: **

Ukraine signed in 1996, as non-nuclear weapons states parties. We are fully supporting the Treat on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. We do not have any nuclear arms, and plan not to. However, Ukraine believes we should look into Pakistan, India, Isreal, North Korea and Iran, for nuclear weapons. We strongly think that there should be investigations for all the countries. However, we are not afriad of any country with nuclear weapons. Ukraine does not have a CW program, nor does it plan to establish one. Ukraine is a State Party to the [|Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)], which it ratified in 1998. "Ukraine has adopted legislation that provides a legal framework for binding CWC implementation, including related provisions in the country’s Criminal Code. As the deputy minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine stated in his speech to the Ninth Session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, “Ukraine strictly controls on the governmental level all export-import operations and transfers of scheduled chemicals.” "
 * Country Policy and Involvement: **

Ukraine would like to see more nuclear reduction plans in the nuclear states. Ukraine would like to see that the nuclear states stop their nuclear power by 2018. Ukraine is supportive of the 'It's Time" plan. 'It's Time" members of all countries would meet annually to discuss Nuclear Proliferation, ending in 2018.
 * Solutions: **

We also think that we must update the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It has some loop-holes that we need to address.