Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 81Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, published in 2001.

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Disarmament Agreements Nuclear Freeze Nuclear Weapon Tests Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Verification

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Stresses the importance and urgency of signature and ratification, without delay and without conditions and in accordance with constitutional processes, to achieve the early entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty;

Welcomes the contributions by the States signatories to the work of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, in particular to its efforts to ensure that the Treaty’s verification regime will be capable of meeting the verification requirements of the Treaty upon its entry into force, in accordance with article IV of the Treaty;

Urges States to maintain their moratoria on nuclear weapons test explosions or any other nuclear explosions, pending the entry into force of the Treaty;

Calls upon all States that have not yet signed the Treaty to sign and ratify it as soon as possible and to refrain from acts that would defeat its object and purpose in the meanwhile;

Calls upon all States that have signed but not yet ratified the Treaty, in particular those whose ratification is needed for its entry into force, to accelerate their ratification processes with a view to their early successful conclusion;

Urges all States to remain seized of the issue at the highest political level;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session the item entitled “Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty”.

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