After 12 years of
negotiations, the five recognized nuclear-weapon states (P5) finally agree to
sign on the protocol to the treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free
Zone (SEANWFZ) next Thursday here, Cambodian senior officials said Thursday.
The P5 include the United States, the United Kingdom,
France, China and Russia. They are all going to sign the protocol on July 12
here during an ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting with those countries' foreign
ministers, Koy Kuong, spokesman for Cambodia's ministry of foreign affairs and
international cooperation, told Xinhua.
"As the chair of 2012 ASEAN, Cambodia is pleased to
see all the five recognized nuclear-weapon states to sign the protocol,"
he said. "Their upcoming signatures reflect their support for the
SEANWFZ."
The protocol requires the P5 not to contribute to any
violation of the treaty and not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons
within the SEANWFZ. In addition, the P5 would commit to stopping nuclear weapon
proliferation and testing in the Southeast Asia.
ASEAN leaders signed the SEANWFZ Treaty in Bangkok,
Thailand on Dec. 15, 1995 and it took effect two years later. The negotiations
between the ASEAN and the five recognized nuclear-weapon states on the protocol
have been held since May 2001.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) group
Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
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