BBC WORLD coverage of the summit
Article IV of the NPT (from IAEA website) reads as:
- "Article IV
Nothing in this Treaty shall be interpreted as affecting the inalienable right of all the Parties to the Treaty to develop research, production anduse of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination and inconformity with Articles I and II of this Treaty.
All the Parties to the Treaty undertake to facilitate, and have the right to participate in, the fullest possible exchange of equipment, materials and scientific and technological information for the peacefuluses of nuclear energy. Parties to the Treaty in a position to do so shall also co-operate in contributing alone or together with other States or international organizations to the further development of the applicationsof nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, especially in the territories of non-nuclear-weapon States Party to the Treaty, with due consideration for the needs of the developing areas of the world. "
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