TREATY ON THE PROHIBITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS: consolidation of the regime and establishment of the mechanism

The present work continues the research started in the article «The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: introduction to the problem» (2024, no. 6, pp. 5–12). The author provides an international legal analysis of the key provisions of the 2017 Treaty from the perspective of the fundamentals of international security law (in systemic connection with the UN Charter of 1945 and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons of 1968) and law of treaties. In the course of the analysis, the author identifies clear gaps, contradictions and inconsistencies both with the existing nuclear non-proliferation regime and the obligations of nuclear states, as well as with specific provisions within the 2017 Treaty itself. The low legal effectiveness of the norms and the quality of the entire international regime are attributed not only to the absence of nuclear states among the drafters of the text but also to a clearly unsuccessful attempt to artificially integrate various norms from the existing regimes of nuclear, chemical and biological non-proliferation within the framework of the treaty. As a result, the author concludes that even the accession of de jure and de facto nuclear states to the 2017 Treaty will not ensure guaranteed nuclear disarmament.