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27 April ¨C 22 May 2026
Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)

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Today, humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation. We need the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as much as ever. That is why this Review Conference is so important. It¡¯s an opportunity to hammer-out the measures that will help avoid certain disaster. And to put humanity on a new path towards a world free of nuclear weapons.

ANT?NIO GUTERRES
Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the NPT
1 August 2022, New York
Secretary-General Portrait

NPT 2026
programme and logistics

Conference conclusion

Press Releases & Briefings

Conference opening remarks

Information notes

Preparatory documents

 

Provisional agenda

Programme of work

NPT 2026 draft proposed programme of work (NPT/CONF.2026/INF/4/Rev.6)

Main Committee III and Subsidiary Body 3:
Draft programme of work 4¨C15 May
Draft indicative timetable 4¨C15 May

Main Committee II and Subsidiary Body 2:
Draft programme of work 4¨C15 May
Draft indicative timetable 4¨C15 May

Main Committee I and Subsidiary Body 1:

 

Other

Speakers List (now available: Main Committee I, II, III)

Webcast recordings

Media Advisory

Side Events & Exhibits calendar

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Register to participate

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Side events & exhibitions

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Latest updates & news

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Brief overview

What is the NPT?

The (NPT) is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote co-operation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the achievement of nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.

The NPT represents the only binding commitment in a multilateral treaty to the goal of disarmament by the nuclear-weapon States.

Timeline

Opened for signature in 1968, the Treaty entered into force in 1970. Since its entry into force, the NPT has been the cornerstone of global nuclear non-proliferation regime.

, including the five nuclear-weapon States, making the NPT the most widely adhered to multilateral disarmament agreement.

NPT Review

The Treaty, as outlined in article VIII, paragraph 3, envisages a review of the operation of the Treaty every five years, a provision which was reaffirmed by the States parties at the and the .