Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding – Norwegian

Opprop for å gjøre globalt forbud mot prøvespregning av atomvåpen juridisk bindende

Av Ramesh Jaura

BERLIN | WIEN | ASTANA (IDN) – Den kasakhiske utenriksministeren Kairat Abdrakhmanov og CTBTOs eksekutivsekretær Dr Lassina Zerbo har oppfordret alle stater som har undertegnet avtalen om å “gjøre alt de kan for å sikre at forbud mot prøvesprengninger blir juridisk bindende ved å sette i kraft” prøvestansavtalen (CTBT) som har vært i limbo i 22 år.

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73 Years On, a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World Remains a Mirage – Norwegian

Etter 73 år er en verden uten atomvåpen fortsatt en luftspeiling

Av Ramesh Jaura

Berlin (IDN) – Nobels fredsprisvinner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel og buddhist-filosof Daisaku Ikeda minnes et sitat av Martin Luther King Jr – “Vi er alltid på terskelen til en ny daggry” – og hevder at vedtaket av FN-traktaten om forbud mot atomvåpen i juli 2017 er en slik ‘terskel’.

I en felles appell ‘Til verdens ungdom’, utgitt til media og til et større publikum i Roma, og overlevert til Pave Frans, bemerker de at traktaten “er et internasjonalt rettsinstrument som fastslår den absolutte ulovlighet” av atomvåpen.

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Kudos for Kazakhstan’s ‘Leading Role’ as UN General Assembly Campaigns for Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

By Santo D. Banerjee

NEW YORK (IDN) – The International Day against Nuclear Tests (IDANT) has been observed around the world on August 29 since 2010. A new element was added this year when President of the 72nd session of the General Assembly, Miroslav Lajčák, convened a high-level plenary meeting on September 6 “to commemorate and promote” this landmark Day and the Nuclear‑Test‑Ban Treaty.

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Test-Ban Treaty Will Produce Tangible Benefits for Humankind

Viewpoint by Dr Lassina Zerbo

NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – In a keynote address at the High-Level Meeting of the UN General Assembly to commemorate and promote the International Day Against Nuclear Test on September 6, 2018, CTBTO Executive Secretary Dr Lassina Zerbo exhorted “all countries – small and large – that have not yet signed or ratified” the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) “to do so without hesitation.”

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Uncertainty About Whether the U.S. and Russia Can Avert a New Arms Race

By Daryl G. Kimball

The United States and Russia are rushing forward with costly, ambitious plans to upgrade their Cold War nuclear arsenals and develop new types of destabilizing nuclear weapon, writes Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director of the Arms Control Association in the September issue of Arms Control Today. The editorial appeared with the caption ‘Can the U.S. and Russia Avert a New Arms Race?’

WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN-INPS) – Five long years have passed since U.S. President Barack Obama proposed and Russian President Vladimir Putin unfortunately rejected negotiations designed to cut their excessive nuclear stockpiles by one-third below the limits set by the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START).

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