World Legislative Act #34
Nuclear Weapons Dismantling Procedure
Short title:
Dismantling Procedure
Notes About the Dismantling Procedure
1. The Model Nuclear Weapons Convention (UNGA#A/62/650) was prepared by a consortium of scientists, lawyers, disarmament experts, academics and officials as a discussion document to assist in deliberations and possible negotiations leading to the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons. It outlines legal, technical and political elements which could be utilized in an actual nuclear weapons convention or package/framework of agreements. The drafters did not assume that the final agreed convention or package of agreements would be exactly the same as in their model or in this Act. The drafters do however believe that the Model (upon which this Act is based) demonstrates the feasibility and practicality of nuclear disarmament. For discussion on these issues see Securing our Survival: The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament (PNND), and the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), Cambridge USA, 2007.
2. [Square brackets] refers to text which had not been agreed by all the drafters or which suggests alternative approaches. The text makes reference to a “Verification Annex” which would form an integral part of the final Dismantling Procedure, but is not included in this Act.
(Parentheses) refer to one of the following: 1. Apposition within the context of the Act, to properly identify synonyms; 2. The corresponding Sections within A/62/650, or 3. Editorial notation, for instance, to comment on difference from earlier versions of the Act.
3. Footnotes to this partially engrossed version primarily describe the types of amendments made from WLA#34 (2006), using abbreviations after initial amendment type labeling within the footnotes: technical/legal (TL) improvements of A/62/650 over A/C.1/52/7 (Most amendments were of this type.), constitutional consistency (CC) to conform provisions to the Earth Constitution, or corrective/integrative (CI) to correct errors of the 2006 version or to polish provisions to fit together with other existing world legislation.
As an aid to research and cross-referencing, there are markers to identify the corresponding pages within the English .pdf version of A/62/650. These appear in green, thus:
A/62/650
8 08-21377
Where the code 08-21377 refers to the .pdf, and 8 refers to the marked page within the .pdf. Odd pages retain the page number to the right of the code.
The Provisional World Parliament originally derived the base text for the Dismantling Procedure from the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention of United Nations General Assembly Official Document A/C.1/52/7, produced by the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms in association with Costa Rica and other NGOs. (http://www.ialana.net) The Elimination Protocol was adopted as World Legislative Act #34 by the 9th session of Provisional World Parliament convened in Tripoli, Libya, on 12 April 2006, under Article 19 of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.
At the 11th Session of the Provisional World Parliament, 4th July 2009, convened at the Van Niwas Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India, the Parliament adopted substantial amendments to the Act, drawing from UNGA A/62/650 and from the draft bill Depleted Uranium Specifications.
Among other decisions at Nainital, the Parliament adopted Act name change to the Nuclear Weapons Dismantling Procedure, or the Dismantling Procedure, for short title.