NPT Review Conference

The 2010 Review Conference for the

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(NPT) was held at

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in New York City from 3 to 28 May 2010.Background
2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 3–29 May 2010. The President of the Review Conference is Ambassador Libran N. Cabactulan of the Philippines.2010 Review Conference
of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 3–29 May 2010.Day 1 at the NPT: Transparency, bluster, and practical commitments
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used the opening of the conference to note that "sixty five years later, the world still lives under the nuclear shadow". The Review Conference considered a number of issues, including: universality of the Treaty;

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