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- Zangger Committee - The Zangger Committee of the Nonproliferation
Treaty Exporters examines controls enacted pursuant to the Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty by refining the list of items requiring
nuclear safeguards. The Zangger Committee consists of 23 Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) nuclear supplier nations which
includes all nuclear weapons states except France and China. Through
a series of consultations in the early 1970's, the countries of
the Zangger Committee compiled a "trigger list" of nuclear
materials and equipment. The shipment of any item on the list
to a non-nuclear weapons state "triggers" the requirement
of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards. Since
the Zangger Committee is associated with the NPT, its members
are obligated to treat all non-nuclear weapons parties to the
treaty alike. For fear of discrediting the NPT, the Zangger countries
cannot target strict nuclear controls toward certain nations with
questionable proliferation credentials; the NPT binds them to
assist non-nuclear weapons states with peaceful atomic energy
projects.
- ZEP - Zone d'Exchanges Preferentiels pour les Etats de l'Afrique,
de l'Est et de l'Afrique Australe
- ZF - La Zone Franc
- Zone d'Exchanges Preferentiels pour les Etats de l'Afrique
de l'Est et de l'Afrique Australe - See: Preferential Trade Area
for Eastern and Southern African States.
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