Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda items 51Cessation of all nuclear-test explosions and 53Urgent need for a Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, published in 1991.

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30 versions · 1991–2025

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What subjects does this mandate have?

13 topics

Disarmament Agreements Disarmament Negotiations Information Exchange Nuclear Disarmament Nuclear Non-Proliferation Nuclear Weapon States Nuclear Weapon Tests On-Site Inspection Radioactivity Satellite Monitoring Seismic Monitoring Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Verification

What does this mandate say?

11 operative paragraphs

2/ The United Nations Disarmcunent Yearbook, vol. I:

Reaffirms its conviction that a treaty to achieve the prohibition of all nuclear-test explosions by all States in all environments for all time is a matter of priority which would constitute an essential step in order to prevent the qualitative improvement and development of nuclear weapons and their further proliferation, and which would contribute to the process of nuclear disarmcunent;

Urges, therefore, all States to seek to achieve the early discontinuance of all nuclear-test explosions for all time;

Reaffirms the particular responsibilities of the Conference on Disarmament in the negotiation of a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty, and in this context urges the re-establishment of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Nuclear Test Ban in 1992 with an appropriate mandate;

3/ United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 480, No. 6964.

4/ Ibid., vol. 729, No. 10485.

Reoueata the Conference on Disarmament, in this context, to intensify its substantive work on specific and interrelated test-ban issues, including structure and scope and verification and compliance, taking also into account all relevant proposals and future initiatives;

Urges the Conference on Disarmament:

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To take into account the progress achieved by the Ad Hoc Group of

Scientific Experts to Consider International Cooperative Measures to Detect and Identify Seismic Events, including the experience gained from the technical test concerning the global exchange and analysis of seismic data, and other relevant initiatives;

To continue efforts to establish, with the widest possible participation, an international seismic monitoring network with a view to developing further a system for the effective monitoring and verification of compliance with a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty;

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To investigate other measures to monitor and verify compliance with such a treaty, including on-site inspections, satellite monitoring and an international network to monitor atmospheric radioactivity;

Urges :

The nuclear-weapon States to agree promptly to appropriate verifiable and militarily significant interim measures, with a view to concluding a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty;

Those nuclear-weapon States which have not yet done so to adhere to the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and under Water;

Calls upon the Conference on Disarmament to report to the General Assembly at its forty-seventh session on progress made;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-seventh session an item entitled "Comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty".

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2/ The United Nations Disarmcunent Yearbook, vol. I:

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