Comment on “NPT abandons official document, Preparatory Committee closes, Russia and Iran remain opposed.” [in Japanese]
On August 13, 2023, the Asahi Shimbun published a comment by Professor Nobumasa Akiyama, Dean of the Graduate School of International and Public Policy, on the article “NPT abandons official document, Preparatory Committee closes, Russia and Iran remain opposed.” The article discusses the first Preparatory Committee for the 2026 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, which closed on 11 November amid criticism from Russia, Iran, and other parties in the unusual situation of not leaving the Chairman’s Summary Draft as an official document. Director Akiyama commented that this showed the gravity of the international situation facing the NPT regime, with strategic conflicts such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s growing nuclear capability casting a shadow over it.
