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The 13 steps is a paragraph of the Final Document (agreed by consensus) of the 2000 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, providing a set of 'practical steps for the systematic and progressive efforts to implement Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons'. Article VI is the part of the Treaty that provides for nuclear disarmament.
It was adopted mainly on the initiative of the New Agenda Coalition, a group of countries favouring early nuclear disarmament, including Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Slovenia, South Africa, and Sweden.
Article VI of the Treaty itself says:
Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.
The paragraph containing the 13 steps may be found in the Final Document of the 2000 Review Conference in the section 15. It says:
Step or Steps may refer to:
STEP may refer to:
StEP may refer to:
Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus, 25 August 1954) is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader than that of most popular songs. His music has drawn on many diverse genres; one critic described him as a "pop encyclopaedia", able to "reinvent the past in his own image".
Costello has won multiple awards in his career, including a Grammy Award, and has twice been nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Male. In 2003, Elvis Costello & the Attractions were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Costello number 80 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
Costello was born Declan Patrick MacManus in St Mary's Hospital, London, the son of Lilian Alda (née Ablett, b. 1927, Liverpool) and Ross MacManus (1927–2011), a musician and bandleader. He is of Irish heritage. Costello lived in Twickenham, attending Hounslow Secondary Modern School, which is now St Mark's Catholic Secondary School, in neighbouring Hounslow. With a musically inclined father (who was a jazz trumpeter and sang with The Joe Loss Orchestra), Costello's first broadcast recording was alongside his dad in a television commercial for R. White's Lemonade (I'm a Secret Lemonade Drinker). His father wrote and sang the song; Costello provided backing vocals. The advertisement won a silver award at the 1974 International Advertising Festival.
(whispered 4x)
Drop, Drop, Drop In The ocean
Verse 1:
Can You Hear?
There's a whisper in the air
can you feel that a new heart is beating?
Each drop runs down to the end of the river, where the past and the future are one.
Verse 2:
Some may sail to the end of the world
But no matter how mighty their journey.
Every stranger they meet,
will tomorrow a brother
every life's another Drop in o-o-ocean.
Chorus:
I'm a drop in the ocean,
drop of emotion
i'm a drop in the ever changing tide
I can rise up as a rain
I can fall down like thunder,
all it takes is just drop in the o-o-ocean
(whispered 4x)
Drop drop drop in the ocean.
Verse 3:
Some of died for a wish to be free,
some at war some for no crime or reason,
Every tear falling down helps the world tell it's story,
Every life's another drop in the o-o-ocean
Chorus:
I'm a drop in the ocean, drop of emotion
I'm a part of the ever changing tide
I can rise up as a rain,
I ca fall down like thunder,
All it takes is just a drop a in the o-o-ocean.
(whispered 4x)
Drop Drop Drop in the ocean
Chorus:
Drop In The Ocean, Drop of emotion
I'm a drop in the ocean of dreams,
I can touch every shore, join together every nation, All it takes is just a drop in the o-o-ocean.
(fading in background)
Drop Drop Drop In the Ocean 4x
(Sing)
The Ocean.... 4x