WF Resolution 9 (Pacifica)

WF Assembly Resolution 9
Date	19 October 2020
Document	Link
Voting summary	6 voted for 3 voted against 3 abstained
Result	Adoption of the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons

World Forum Resolution 9 - Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) prohibits, among others, the development, test, usage, stationing and instalment of nuclear weapons and explosive devices. All signatory nations are bound by the treaty to stop the aforementioned usages. It is widely regarded as the widest ranging treaty on prohibition of nuclear weapons.

Background

On 06 September 2020 Giantalan WF-ambassador Helene Maise introduced a draft of a treaty comprehensively banning usage of nuclear weapons. While Ryccian was disapproving of the treaty and threatening to leave the World Forum, several key nations like Izaakia, the Frost Empire and Sedunn supporting the resolution. Before the vote held, the host of the Pacifican Nuclear Association (PNA) had to be determined. After many nominations Asernsia was elected. On 19 October 2020 Speaker Vogélium announced that the resolution passed with its original text by 67% of the Assembly voting in favour for it.

Summary

The resolution consists of eight articles.

• Article 1 lists prohibitions
• Article 2 mandates declarations of former possessions
• Article 3 establishes the PNA
• Article 4 transfers responsibility on nations
• Article 5 establishes means of victim assistance and environmental remediation
• Article 6 explains how international cooperation should work
• Article 7 defines membership
• Article 8 final provisions

Provisions

Article 1 - Prohibitions

All signatory states and any private or public entity within their territory or at any place under their jurisdiction or control shall never under any circumstance undertake directly or indirectly to:

1. develop, test, produce, manufacture, acquire, possess, stockpile, transfer or receive nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices;
2. use or threaten to use nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices;
3. assist, encourage or induce anyone in any way to engage in any of the above activities and neither seek or receive any assistance in that matter.
4. allow any stationing, installation or deployment of any nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices.

Article 2 - Declarations

Each signatory state shall declare to the Assembly upon accession or the latest one year after this treaty has entered into force whether:

1. they owned, possessed or controlled nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, or still do own, possess or control such weaponry.
2. there are any nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices in its territory or in any place under its jurisdiction or control, which are owned, possessed or controlled by another state.
3. a programme for the elimination or irreversible conversion of all nuclear-weapons-related facilities has been established prior to this treaty entering into force.

If paragraph a) applies, the signatory state has to make the number of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices it owns, possesses or controls, or has owned, possessed or controlled transparent to the Assembly.

If paragraph b) applies, the signatory state has to make the number of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices controlled by another state in its area of jurisdiction or control transparent to the Assembly.

If paragraph c) applies, the signatory state has to make the current progress of the programme transparent to the Assembly.

Article 3 - PNA/The total elimination of all nuclear weapons

1. There shall be a competent international authority, the Pacifican Nuclear Association (PNA), consisting of one representative for each signatory state. The headquarters of the PNA shall be in Anserisa.
2. Each signatory state, which owned, possessed or controlled nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices after 1 September 2020 and eliminated its nuclear weapons programme, including the elimination or irreversible conversion of all nuclear-weapons-related facilities, shall cooperate with the PNA for the purpose of verifying the irreversible elimination of its nuclear weapons programme. Furthermore they shall reach a safeguards agreement with the PNA sufficient to provide credible assurance of the non-diversion of declared nuclear material from peaceful nuclear activities and of the absence of undeclared nuclear material or activities in the signatory state’s area of jurisdiction or control.
3. Each signatory state owning, possessing or controlling nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices shall immediately remove those from operational status and destroy them as soon as possible, but not later than the end of 31 December 2024. This deadline also extends to the elimination of a signatory state’s nuclear weapons programme, including the elimination or irreversible conversion of all nuclear-weapons-related facilities. A cooperation with the PNA as laid out in Section B, Article 3, Number 2 shall follow the latest as of 1 January 2025.
4. The PNA shall report yearly to the International Court and the Committee of International Law on the progress made by each signatory state on the elimination of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices. If necessary the International Court shall, after consultation with the aforementioned Committees and the PNA, impose penal actions on signatory states to enforce the fulfilment of the treaty.

Article 4 - National implementation

1. Each signatory state shall adopt necessary measures in national legislation to implement its obligations under this treaty.<7li>
2. Each signatory state shall take all appropriate legal, administrative and other measures, including the imposition of penal sanctions, to prevent and suppress any activity prohibited under this treaty.

Article 5 - Victim assistance and environmental remediation

1. Each signatory state shall adequately provide assistance – without discrimination –, including medical care, rehabilitation and psychological support, to individuals within their area of jurisdiction or control, who were affected by the use or testing of nuclear weapons or nuclear explosive devices.
2. Each signatory state shall environmentally remediate areas under their jurisdiction or control, which were contaminated by the use or testing of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices.
3. Independently from any other duty or obligation a state might have due to international law, a signatory state that has used or tested nuclear weapons or any other nuclear explosive devices shall have a responsibility to provide adequate assistance to affected states for the purpose of victim assistance and environmental remediation.

Article 6 - International cooperation and assistance

Each signatory state shall:

1. cooperate with other states to facilitate the implementation of this treaty
2. have the right to seek and receive assistance, where feasible, from other states, to fulfil their obligations under this treaty.
3. provide technical, material, financial and humanitarian assistance to states affected by, and victims of the use or testing of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, if the signatory state is in a position to do so.

Article 7 - Treaty membership

1. Each signatory state shall encourage states not party to this treaty to sign, ratify, accept, approve or accede to the treaty, with the goal of universal adherence of all states to the treaty.
2. This treaty needs to be ratified, accepted or approved by signatory states. Those signatory states do not have to be members or observers of the World Forum.
3. This treaty shall enter into force for a signatory state 60 days after its ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.
4. Each signatory state has the right, through exercising its national sovereignty, to withdraw from this treaty, if it decides that extraordinary events related to the subject matter of the treaty have jeopardised the supreme interests of its country. It shall give notice of such withdrawal to the PNA, the Speaker and the International Court. Such notice needs to include a statement laying out the extraordinary events, that it regards as having jeopardised its supreme interests.
5. The withdrawal shall take effect 12 months after the date of the receipt of the notification of withdrawal by the International Court. If, however, on the expiry of this 12-month-period the withdrawing signatory state is a party to an armed conflict, the signatory state shall continue to be bound to the obligations of this treaty and of any additional protocols to it until it is no longer party to an armed conflict.

Article 8 - Final provisions

1. The treaty shall be of unlimited duration and its articles shall not be subject to reservations.
2. The Alman, Austral and Sedunnic texts of this treaty shall be equally authentic.
3. The original of this treaty shall be deposited in the World Forum headquarters in Grovne, Sedunn. Certified copies of this treaty shall be deposited at the PNA headquarters on Government Island, at the International Court in Petrovka, Karnetvor, at the Committee for International Law in Gracemaria, Imperial Frost Federation, and at the Committee for Science and Education in Freudstadt, GI-Land.
   

Members

• Gianatla
• Kosbaran
• Huawan
• Earamia