Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 95Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, published in 2009.

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30 versions · 1991–2025

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Barbados Burundi Colombia Confidence-Building Measures Consultations Iraq Korean Peninsula Malaysia Nuclear Freeze Nuclear Weapon Tests Nuclear Weapons Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Timor-Leste Verification

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2009.

2009A/64/137Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty report of the Secretary-General

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What does this mandate say?

11 operative paragraphs

Stresses the vital importance and urgency of signature and ratification, without delay and without conditions, to achieve the earliest 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 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;

Underlines the need to maintain momentum towards completion of all elements of the verification regime;

Urges all States not to carry out nuclear-weapon test explosions or any other nuclear explosions, to maintain their moratoriums in this regard and to refrain from acts that would defeat the object and purpose of the Treaty, while stressing that these measures do not have the same permanent and legally binding effect as the entry into force of the Treaty;

Calls for the verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in a peaceful manner through the successful implementation of the Joint Statement of 19 September 2005, and the initial and second-phase actions to implement it, agreed upon in the framework of the Six-Party Talks;

Urges all States that have not yet signed the Treaty to sign and ratify it as soon as possible;

Urges 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 ensuring their earliest successful conclusion;

Welcomes the ratification of the Treaty in 2008 by Colombia, Barbados, Malaysia and Burundi, as well as the signature in 2008 by Iraq and Timor-Leste, as significant steps towards the early entry into force of the Treaty;

Urges all States to remain seized of the issue at the highest political level and, where in a position to do so, to promote adherence to the Treaty through bilateral and joint outreach, seminars and other means;

Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, to prepare a report on the efforts of States that have ratified the Treaty towards its universalization and possibilities for providing assistance on ratification procedures to States that so request it, and to submit such a report to the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session;

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

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