Through the years
2000s01 MAY 2000—24 FEBRUARY 2003
2000 NPT RevCon final document notes that Israel is the only state in the Middle East outside the treaty
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24 FEBRUARY 2003—25 FEBRUARY 2003
League of Arab States and UNIDIR hold a conference in Cairo on “Building a WMD Free Zone in the Middle East” exploring its prospects and the experience of other nuclear-weapon-free zones
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29 DECEMBER 2003
Arab Group draft resolution at the UN Security Council calls on all Middle Eastern states to accede to all arms control and non-proliferation regimes
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01 MAY 2005
2005 NPT RevCon fails to agree on a consensus document due to disagreement over the ME WMDFZ issue among other issues
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29 JUNE 2005
League of Arab States registers its objection to the Gulf Cooperation Council Gulf WMDFZ initiative
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04 FEBRUARY 2006
IAEA Board of Governors resolution recognizes that a solution to the Iranian issue would contribute to realizing a ME WMDFZ
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18 MAY 2006
League of Arab States summit expresses deep concern over the failure of the 2005 NPT RevCon
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22 SEPTEMBER 2006
Consensus on the “Application of IAEA Safeguards in the Middle East” Resolution is broken in the IAEA
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30 APRIL 2008
Arab Group working paper at the 2008 NPT PrepCom outlines steps to be taken to promote the implementation of the 1995 Resolution on the Middle East
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13 JULY 2008
Paris Summit for the Mediterranean issues a joint declaration supporting the establishment of a mutually and effectively verifiable ME WMDFZ
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08 MAY 2009
Russia proposes holding a conference to consider the prospects of implementation of the ME WMDFZ in a statement at the 2009 NPT PrepCom
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13 MAY 2003