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TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA SEVENTH SPECIAL SESSION, 2020 C.R NO.

21-177 A RESOLUTION Ratifying the Small Quantities Protocol as a treaty between the Federated States of Micronesia and the International Atomic Energy Agency in connection with the implementation and reporting requirements under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
1 WHEREAS, the Federated States of Micronesia is a State 2 Party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons 3 as of April 14, 1995; and 4 WHEREAS, the Treaty is founded on three key pillars, 5 namely: (a) Safeguards, (b) Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, 6 and (c) Nuclear Disarmament; and 7 WHEREAS, the Treaty also requires States Parties to 8 negotiate, enter into, conclude the Safes Agreement in 9 accordance with the Statute of the International Atomic Energy 10 Agency (IAEA); and 11 WHEREAS, pursuant to this legal obligation in the Treaty, 12 the FSM and the IAEA negotiated and concluded the Safeguards 13 Agreement by their signatures on April 21, 2015, and June 1, 14 2015 respectively; and 15 WHEREAS, in addition to concluding the Safeguards 16 Agreement, the FSM to the option to conclude Small Quantities 17 Protocol (SQP) with the IAEA, which essential allows the FSM to 18 hold the implementation of certain provisions of Part II of the 19 Safeguards Agreement in abeyance until such time that the FSM CRL 21-181 C.R NO.
21-177 1 either comes into possession of nuclear materials for peaceful 2 activities in quantities exceeding the limits established in 3 Article 36 of the Safeguards Agreement, or the FSM decides to 4 construct or allow to be constructed a “facility,” which the 5 Safeguards Agreement defines as “(a) a reactor, a critical 6 facility, a conversion plant, a fabrication plant, a 7 reprocessing plant, an isotope separation plant or a separate 8 storage installation; or (b) any location where nuclear 9 material in amounts greater than one effective kilogram is 10 customarily used”; and 11 WHEREAS, the conclusion of the SQP brings practical 12 advantages to the FSM since it relieves itself from the burdens 13 of the full application of Part II of the Safeguards 14 Agreements; and 15 WHEREAS, the SQP requires ratification by the FSM Congress 16 as a treaty; now, therefore, 17 BE IT RESOLVED by the Twenty-First Congress of the 18 Federated States of Micronesia, Seventh Special Session, 2020, 19 that Congress hereby ratifies the Small Quantities Protocol as 20 a treaty between the Federated States of Micronesia and the 21 International Atomic Energy Agency in connection with the 22 implementation and reporting requirements under the Treaty on 23 Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; and 24 25 2 of 3 C.R NO.
21-177 1 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this 2 resolution be transmitted to the President of the Federated 3 States of Micronesia, the Secretary of the Department of 4 Foreign Affairs and the Secretary of the Department of Justice.

5 6 Date: 8/11/20 Introduced by: /s/ Florencio S. Harper Florencio S. Harper (by request) of 3