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Russia's State Duma approves bill revoking ratification of nuclear test ban treaty in first reading

STORY: Russia's State Duma approves bill revoking ratification of nuclear test ban treaty in first reading DATELINE: Oct. 18, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:26 LOCATION: Moscow CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of State Duma sessions (source: Duma telegram) STORYLINE: Russia's lower house of parliament, or State Duma, approved a bill revoking the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in the first reading, it said in a statement Tuesday. Russian lawmakers unanimously approved the bill on the de-ratification of the treaty, and Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin earlier noted that the bill could be considered in the final reading on Oct. 19. "For 23 years we have been waiting for the United States of America to ratify the treaty. But Washington used its double standards and irresponsible approach towards global security issues and still has not done that," Volodin said in a Telegram post. He said that Washington must finally understand that its hegemony will not lea

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Interview with CTBT exec

VIENNA, Austria - Tibor Toth, executive secretary of the provisional secretariat at the preparatory commission for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, speaks during an interview at the commission headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on April 18, 2012. Toth looks at a screen showing the locations of about 280 seismic wave monitoring facilities around the world, which can immediately detect any nuclear test by North Korea.

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Interview with CTBT exec

VIENNA, Austria - Tibor Toth, executive secretary of the provisional secretariat at the preparatory commission for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, speaks during an interview at the commission headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on April 18, 2012. Toth points to a screen showing the locations of about 280 seismic wave monitoring facilities around the world, which can immediately detect any nuclear test by North Korea.

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Okada speaks at U.N. CTBT confab

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada delivers a speech at a conference on an international treaty to ban nuclear tests at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 24, 2009. Okada said Japan is prepared to take the initiative in setting in motion global efforts for the early entry into force of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

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Mori visits Taj Mahal after urging India to sign CTBT

AGRA, India - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (C) takes in the splendors of the Taj Mahal during a brief trip to Agra, 200 kilometers southeast of New Delhi, on Aug. 24. Mori flew into the city aboard a chartered flight and traveled the final kilometer to the 17th-century mausoleum in an electric vehicle, observing a rule aimed at protecting the world-famous structure from further air pollution damage. Earlier in the day in New Delhi, Mori repeated calls for India to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty on nuclear weapons.

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Mori repeats call for India to sign CTBT

NEW DELHI, India - Holding a local newspaper clipping, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori speaks at a lecture hosted by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry at the Vigyan Bhawan, a government convention center, in New Delhi on Aug. 24. Mori repeated his call on India to sign a global treaty banning nuclear tests, saying India would win the respect of the international community if it did.

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Sattar says Pakistan seeks consensus before joining CTBT

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar, in an interview with Kyodo News in Islamabad on Nov. 17, says Pakistan intends to raise awareness among its people of the international treaty banning nuclear tests before signing it. The minister elaborated on a recent comment by military ruler Gen. Pervaiz Musharraf that Pakistan aims to foster a national consensus before adhering to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

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Friends of CTBT meeting in N.Y.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (2nd from L on table) speaks at a high-level meeting of the so-called Friends of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty he hosted in New York on Sept. 21, 2022. The leaders of Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and New Zealand attended the Friends of the CTBT meeting, inaugurated in 2002 by Japan, Australia and the Netherlands to give momentum to efforts to bring the CTBT into force.

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Friends of CTBT meeting in N.Y.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at a high-level meeting of the so-called Friends of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty he hosted in New York on Sept. 21, 2022. The leaders of Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and New Zealand attended the Friends of the CTBT meeting, inaugurated in 2002 by Japan, Australia and the Netherlands to give momentum to efforts to bring the CTBT into force.

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Friends of CTBT meeting in N.Y.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (4th from L on table) hosts a high-level meeting of the so-called Friends of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in New York on Sept. 21, 2022. The leaders of Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands as well as New Zealand attended the Friends of the CTBT meeting, inaugurated in 2002 by Japan, Australia and the Netherlands to give momentum to efforts to bring the CTBT into force.

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Japan vows to help put nuke test ban treaty into force early

Lassina Zerbo (L), executive secretary of the preparatory commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and Japanese senior vice foreign minister Seiji Kihara shake hands in Vienna on June 13, 2016. Japan is ready to lead the way in putting the CTBT into force at an early date, Kihara said in a speech at a one-day ministerial-level meeting there to commemorate 20 years since nations began signing the treaty. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-U.N. Undersecretary General attends CTBT symposium

Former U.N. Undersecretary General Nobuyasu Abe attends a symposium in Vienna aimed at implementing the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, on Jan. 25, 2016. Abe argued all nuclear-weapon states have responsibility to promote nuclear disarmament. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-U.N. Undersecretary General attends CTBT symposium

Former U.N. Undersecretary General Nobuyasu Abe (far L) attends a symposium in Vienna aimed at implementing the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, on Jan. 25, 2016. Abe argued all nuclear-weapon states have responsibility to promote nuclear disarmament. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CTBTO chief sees Hiroshima meeting as new starting point

Lassina Zerbo, executive secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, speaks in an interview in Hiroshima on Aug. 24, 2015, describing the western Japanese city's hosting of a two-day meeting of the Group of Eminent Persons for the CTBT as a new starting point. Hiroshima is one of two Japanese cities devastated by U.S.-dropped atomic bombs in World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hiroshima mayor addresses group of eminent persons for CTBT

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui addresses a meeting of the Group of Eminent Persons for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization in the western Japanese city on Aug. 24, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. ex-defense chief addresses group of eminent persons for CTBT in Hiroshima

Former U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry addresses a meeting of the Group of Eminent Persons for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Aug. 24, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hiroshima high school girl speaks at CTBT symposium

Photo taken Jan. 26, 2016 shows Shizuka Kuramitsu, a high school student from Hiroshima invited to a symposium organized in the Austrian capital by the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CTBTO chief urges Japan to help treaty take effect

Lassina Zerbo, executive secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, speaks to Kyodo News at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 11, 2015. He urged Japan, which will co-chair a CTBT conference with Kazakhstan on Sept. 29, 2015, to lead efforts to have the treaty enter into force. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CTBT group of eminent persons hear A-bomb survivor's testimony

Members of the Group of Eminent Persons for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty listen in Hiroshima on Aug. 25, 2015, to the testimony of atomic bomb survivor Keiko Ogura (far R), 78. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Interview with CTBT exec

VIENNA, Austria - Tibor Toth, executive secretary of the provisional secretariat at the preparatory commission for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, speaks during an interview at the commission headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on April 18, 2012. Toth points to a screen showing the locations of about 280 seismic wave monitoring facilities around the world, which can immediately detect any nuclear test by North Korea. (Kyodo)

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Interview with CTBT exec

VIENNA, Austria - Tibor Toth, executive secretary of the provisional secretariat at the preparatory commission for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, speaks during an interview at the commission headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on April 18, 2012. Toth looks at a screen showing the locations of about 280 seismic wave monitoring facilities around the world, which can immediately detect any nuclear test by North Korea. (Kyodo)

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Okada speaks at U.N. CTBT confab

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada delivers a speech at a conference on an international treaty to ban nuclear tests at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 24, 2009. Okada said Japan is prepared to take the initiative in setting in motion global efforts for the early entry into force of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. (Kyodo)

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Mori visits Taj Mahal after urging India to sign CTBT

AGRA, India - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (C) takes in the splendors of the Taj Mahal during a brief trip to Agra, 200 kilometers southeast of New Delhi, on Aug. 24. Mori flew into the city aboard a chartered flight and traveled the final kilometer to the 17th-century mausoleum in an electric vehicle, observing a rule aimed at protecting the world-famous structure from further air pollution damage. Earlier in the day in New Delhi, Mori repeated calls for India to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty on nuclear weapons.

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Mori repeats call for India to sign CTBT

NEW DELHI, India - Holding a local newspaper clipping, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori speaks at a lecture hosted by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry at the Vigyan Bhawan, a government convention center, in New Delhi on Aug. 24. Mori repeated his call on India to sign a global treaty banning nuclear tests, saying India would win the respect of the international community if it did.

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Sattar says Pakistan seeks consensus before joining CTBT

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar, in an interview with Kyodo News in Islamabad on Nov. 17, says Pakistan intends to raise awareness among its people of the international treaty banning nuclear tests before signing it. The minister elaborated on a recent comment by military ruler Gen. Pervaiz Musharraf that Pakistan aims to foster a national consensus before adhering to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.