Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative (NPDI)

The Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative (NPDI) is a cross-regional, ministerial-level group initiated by Australia and Japan. It focuses on practical steps that will take forward the consensus outcomes of the 2010 NPT Review Conference.  Other members are Canada, Chile, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.

The NPDI's current thematic priorities include:

• encouraging greater transparency surrounding nuclear disarmament efforts
• addressing the lack of substantive work in the Conference on Disarmament across the four core issue on its agenda
• increasing support for and conclusion of key legal instruments that safeguard and govern nuclear activities and
• strengthening the NPT regime

There have been six Ministerial meetings of the NPDI:

• Sixth NPDI Ministerial Meeting, 9 April 2013
• Fifth NPDI Ministerial Meeting, 26 September 2012
• Fourth NPDI Ministerial Meeting, 16 June 2012
• Third NPDI Ministerial Meeting, 21 September 2011
• Second NPDI Ministerial Meeting, 30 April 2011
• First NPDI Ministerial Meeting, 22 September 2010

NPDI statements

• Postponement of the Conference on the establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction
• The Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative condemns the third nuclear test by North Korea