What does NSA stand for?

nuclear disarmament, negative security assurances, prevention of arms race in outer space and fissile material treaty.

[The issues are the Fissile Materials Cut-off Treaty, Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space, Negative Security Assurances, and Nuclear Disarmament.

The United States has reasserted policies of nuclear weapons use that undermine the negative security assurances promised to non-nuclear weapon state parties to the NPT in 1978 and again at the 1995 NFT Review and Extension Conference.

Along with negative security assurances, PAROS continues to be a sticking point.

Chaired by Alain Guillaume of Belgium, the Committee agreed that a discussion on negative security assurances could "not be conducted in isolation from a general assessment of the security situation both at regional and global levels".

It is also in violation of calls in subsequent NPT review conferences that nuclear weapon states offer unambiguous negative security assurances to non-nuclear states.

Algeria, on behalf of the "Group of 21", said that a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty and an international instrument on negative security assurances, together with other nuclear-arms limitation measures, were essential elements of an "effective international regime of nuclear non-proliferation in all its aspects" Advancement of those objectives would decisively influence the outcome of the 1995 Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference.

A/56/22: Conclusion of Effective International Arrangements to Assure Non-Nuclear-Weapons States Against the Use or Threat of Use of Nuclear Weapons -- Pakistan (105-0-54) Canada Abstained The issue of negative security assurances, through which non-nuclear states are ensured against the threat or use of nuclear weapons, is the source of great division in the Conference on Disarmament.