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Version 01 · Reported to Senate with amendment(s) · Apr 13, 2010
Reaffirms Senate support for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
Urges the President to: (1) work to achieve universal Treaty compliance; and (2) ensure that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has the necessary resources to conduct its Treaty oversight responsibilities.
Encourages the President to work with: (1) international partners and Treaty states to promote the Model Additional Protocol to all Safeguards Agreements as the global standard for safeguards and a requirement for nuclear commerce; and (2) other Treaty states to strengthen compliance and enforcement mechanisms and develop collective responses in the U.N. Security Council and other multilateral fora to any notification of Treaty withdrawal.
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Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] · D–PA
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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 345.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Kerry with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and with an amended preamble. Without written report.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Kerry with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and with an amended preamble. Without written report.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1263-1264)
Introduced in Senate
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