Firstly, we must remain committed to the goal of the complete prohibition and total elimination of nuclear weapons. Nuclear-weapon States should conscientiously fulfil their nuclear disarmament obligations and should publicly commit not to seek to hold on to their nuclear weapons indefinitely. The countries with the largest nuclear stockpiles should go a step further by making verifiable, irreversible, large-scale reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Once the conditions are right, the other nuclear-weapon States should also join the multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiation process. The international community should in due course draw up a practically feasible, phased, long-term programme that includes concluding a convention on the complete prohibition of nuclear weapons.