Statement of the G7 Non-Proliferation Directors Group

August 20, 2025 – Ottawa, Ontario – Global Affairs Canada

We, the G7 Non-Proliferation Directors Group, search a safer, extra affluent world, with undiminished safety for all. We are satisfied that, in an more and more unsure safety atmosphere, significant progress on disarmament, non-proliferation, and arms management would require sustained engagement and mutual understanding from all involved events. We additionally acknowledge the worth of incorporating a wide range of views in disarmament, non-proliferation, and arms management decision-making processes. We pledge to guide by instance, fostering dialogue, cooperation, and transparency as we collectively confront these challenges. We invite all States who share our imaginative and prescient to affix us in these efforts.

We be aware of the rising demand for nuclear power and decide to working collectively to make sure that civil nuclear packages across the globe are in step with the best worldwide security, safety, and safeguards requirements, pointers, and proposals. We reiterate our principled opposition to the proliferation of nuclear weapons as detrimental to worldwide peace and safety. We will proceed to help the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in its mission to confirm the non-diversion of nuclear materials and the absence of undeclared nuclear actions, in addition to initiatives geared toward curbing nuclear proliferation, together with by the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction (Global Partnership). Further to the G7 Charlevoix Foreign Ministers’ Declaration on Maritime Security and Prosperity, we may even deal with maritime sanctions evasion networks linked to illicit weapons packages, together with by the institution of a Shadow Fleet Task Force. 

The G7 stays resolute in searching for peace and stability within the Middle East. We re-iterate that Iran can by no means have or purchase a nuclear weapon. We name for the resumption of negotiations geared toward reaching a complete, verifiable, and sturdy settlement that addresses Iran’s nuclear program. It is crucial that Iran stay get together to, and absolutely implement its obligations below, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), together with its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement, as a non-nuclear weapon State. We urge Iran to chorus from any escalatory motion and to urgently resume full cooperation with the IAEA, together with by offering verifiable details about all nuclear materials in Iran. Such measures would assist construct confidence that Iran’s nuclear program is completely peaceable. We additionally proceed to specific our severe considerations about Iran’s proliferation of ballistic missiles, and its help for its proxies and companions comparable to Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iran-aligned militias in Iraq.

We reiterate our dedication to the whole denuclearization of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). We demand that the DPRK abandon all nuclear weapons and different weapons of mass destruction (WMD), ballistic missiles, and associated actions in an entire, verifiable, and irreversible method in accordance with all related United Nations Security Council resolutions (UNSCRs). The DPRK can’t and can by no means have the standing of a nuclear-weapon State in accordance with the NPT nor any particular standing of any form. We re-affirm the significance of upholding and absolutely and successfully implementing all related UNSCRs. We decide to countering sanction-evasion actions and illicit practices that fund the DPRK’s illegal WMD and ballistic missile packages, with Russia and China being probably the most important facilitators. We urge the DPRK to halt destabilizing weapons testing and never conduct any additional nuclear assessments. We re-affirm that the G7 seeks to help diplomatic efforts, based mostly on mutual respect, to deal with the deteriorating safety atmosphere on the Korean Peninsula, with the last word objective of reaching peace and stability within the area and past.

We condemn Russia’s continued brutal battle in opposition to Ukraine. We reaffirm our unwavering help for Ukraine in defending its territorial integrity and proper to exist, and its freedom, sovereignty, and independence. We underscore the necessity for strong and credible safety preparations to make sure that Ukraine can deter and defend in opposition to any continued aggression. We condemn the availability of all army help to Russia by the DPRK and Iran, and the availability of weapons and dual-use parts by China, and can proceed to take motion in opposition to those that help Russia’s battle and the build-up of Russia’s army pressure. We stay dedicated to worldwide efforts, most notably by the IAEA, to uphold nuclear security and safety in Ukraine, together with at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. We welcome ongoing efforts to realize a full and unconditional ceasefire and to barter a complete, simply, and lasting peace in keeping with the rules of the Charter of the United Nations. So lengthy as such a ceasefire just isn’t reached, we’ll proceed to discover all choices, comparable to additional ramping up sanctions in opposition to Russia.

We reiterate our dedication to the last word objective of a world with out nuclear weapons, recalling the unprecedented devastation and immense human struggling the individuals of Hiroshima and Nagasaki skilled on account of the atomic bombings of 1945. We underscore the significance of the 80-year report of non-use of nuclear weapons, the general decline in world nuclear arsenals for the reason that finish of the Cold War, and efforts to restrict the great sums dedicated to nuclear weapons worldwide. In help of those aims, we’ll search to foster significant dialogue with a view to advancing strategic threat discount, nuclear arms management, and nuclear disarmament. We are involved with China’s important nuclear weapons build-up, which lacks transparency and significant safeguards in opposition to unintended nuclear escalation. We additionally search Russia’s return to full compliance with the New START Treaty and follow-on nuclear arms management measures. Reciprocal transparency relating to nuclear forces, doctrines, and supply programs advantages all events and contributes to world stability.

The G7 will proceed to work towards strengthening the worldwide treaty structure underpinning nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. We underline the important function of the NPT because the cornerstone of the worldwide nuclear non-proliferation regime, and the inspiration for the pursuit of nuclear disarmament and peaceable makes use of of nuclear power and applied sciences. We name on these States that haven’t but accomplished so to accede to the NPT, and on those that have acceded to totally implement their obligations below the Treaty. We decide to working with all States to realize a profitable Review Conference in 2026 and to help constructive discussions in all subsidiary our bodies of the Conference on Disarmament, together with these on a treaty banning the manufacturing of fissile materials to be used in nuclear weapons or different nuclear explosive units. We deplore all makes an attempt to hinder the work of disarmament fora. We additionally re-commit to the aims of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty for worldwide peace and safety and to help with the mandatory sources, topic to our home necessities, the long-term sustainability of the International Monitoring System. 

We emphasize the necessity for the total implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC). Any use or menace of use of organic or chemical weapons wherever, at any time, by anybody, below any circumstances is unacceptable, and people chargeable for using such weapons should be held accountable. We observe the significance of ongoing efforts to contemplate measures to reinforce the effectiveness of the BTWC, such because the institution of the lengthy over-due International Cooperation and Assistance and Science and Technology mechanisms and the exchanges on different issues, together with compliance and verification. We name for the fast cessation of using riot management brokers as a way of warfare and another chemical assaults in Ukraine, and on this regard categorical grave concern over the reported use of chloropicrin in Ukraine. We welcome the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ (OPCW) unbiased verification of CS, a riot management agent, in samples collected by Ukraine and name for the well timed attribution of any prohibited use of chemical brokers. We commend Syria for its dedication to get rid of the Assad regime’s chemical weapons and stand able to help the OPCW to grab this historic alternative.

We stay dedicated to stopping an arms race in outer area in all its points, recalling the duty of all States Parties to adjust to the Outer Space Treaty, together with the prohibition in opposition to inserting in orbit across the Earth any objects carrying WMD. The G7 helps the institution of norms, guidelines, and rules of accountable area behaviours to assist improve safety, mitigate threats in opposition to area programs, and scale back misperceptions that may improve the danger of armed battle. We urge all States to ratify the Outer Space Treaty and adjust to all its provisions, underscoring that worldwide legislation, together with the UN Charter and worldwide humanitarian legislation, applies to actions in outer area. We name on all States to chorus from irresponsible behaviours, aggressive rhetoric, or actions that may result in unintended escalation, together with damaging direct-ascent anti-satellite missile assessments, which could have widespread and irreversible impacts on the outer area atmosphere. We reiterate the necessity for worldwide cooperation to strengthen security, safety, stability, and sustainability for all States to learn from the peaceable exploration and use of outer area.

The G7 acknowledges the profound implications of rising applied sciences with potential functions within the realm of each WMD and traditional weapons. Artificial intelligence, drone know-how, quantum computing, superior robotics, and biotechnology are among the many applied sciences that may create great alternatives for the betterment of humankind but in addition generate safety threats. We decide to mitigating the dangers related to these applied sciences by facilitating their accountable improvement, deployment, and use, together with by threat-reduction programming below the Global Partnership and different related our bodies, and by adhering to relevant worldwide legislation. We will search to implement commitments on biosecurity and biosafety by cross-sectoral, expert-level work in high-priority areas. We additionally reaffirm our dedication to coordinating efficient export controls—by multilateral export management regimes and strong nationwide programs—on potential military-use objects, applied sciences, and analysis, to safeguard worldwide peace and safety.

We stay unwavering in our dedication to fostering undiminished safety for all and lowering the dangers posed by WMD. We acknowledge the complicated challenges forward and the necessity for multilateral cooperation and a forward-looking strategy. As we witness an increase in conflicts and tensions the world over, the worldwide neighborhood should unite to deal with the basis causes of insecurity, instability, and armed battle. We reiterate our name for all States to affix on this effort, guaranteeing a future by which safety, belief, and the last word elimination of WMD prevail.