US: Agreement will be tough at 2020 nuclear treaty review

The final preparatory meeting for next year's review of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty ended Friday with deep divisions, and US Ambassador Robert Wood said reaching agreement at the 2020 conference "will be an incredibly difficult task."
Malaysia's UN Ambassador Syed Mohd Hasrin Tengku Hussin, chair of the third preparatory conference, told a news conference Friday that delegates "do not agree on everything but remain committed to full implementation" of the NPT, and talked about "how to accelerate measures to a nuclear-free world."
Rebecca Johnson, a security analyst and founding president of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons which won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, said: "The real questions for 2020 are going to be about the nuclear risks and treaties under threat from a few narcissistic leaders who are pulling out of them in order to keep proliferating and deploying nuclear weapons."