THE NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE 2010: PERSPECTIVES FOR INTERNATIONAL SAFEGUARDS

In Article VIII of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) a mechanism is embedded to review, at intervals of 5 years, the implementation of the Treaty. The 8th NPT Review Conference was held in May 2010 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. As the majority of the Review Conferences, also the 2010 Conference ended with the adoption of a final document. The paper analyzes and assesses the results of the NPT Review Conference with regard to international safeguards and gives perspectives for the further implementation of safeguards performed by the International Atomic Energy Agency.