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VIP's at the Osteria La Gensola - Rome

Federica Zerbo, Valerio Carocci and Gus Van Sant at the Osteria La Gensola restaurant, in Rome, Italy, on November 17, 2025. Photo by IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cardinals at Ninth Novemdiales Mass - Vatican

Cardinal Bamako Jean Zerbo arrives for the Ninth Novemdiale mass at St Peter's Basilica in The Vatican. Vatican City, Vatican on May 4, 2025. Photo by Alessia Giuliani/Catholic Press Photo/ABACAPRESS.COM

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New nuclear test monitoring system

VIENNA, Austria - Lassina Zerbo (C), executive secretary of the preparatory commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, and Toshiro Ozawa (R), ambassador at Japan's permanent mission to the international organizations in Vienna, attend a tape-cutting ceremony during an event marking the launch of a new system to detect radioactive substances from nuclear tests in Vienna, Austria, on Nov. 26, 2013. The new system for Atmospheric Transport Modeling has been installed at the headquarters of the preparatory commission through Japan's contribution of around $737,000, according to the commission.

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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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N. Korea sought to attend ministerial meeting on nuclear test ban

Lassina Zerbo, executive secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, gives an interview to Kyodo News in Vienna on Jan. 18, 2016. Zerbo expressed his intention to invite North Korea to the ministerial-level meeting to be held sometime between April and June in the Austrian capital to commemorate 20 years since states began signing the treaty. (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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CTBTO Executive Secretary Zerbo speaks to Kyodo News in Nagasaki

Lassina Zerbo, executive secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, speaks to Kyodo News at a hotel in Nagasaki, on Aug. 8, 2015. A senior Chinese official told the commission earlier this year that Beijing's ratification of the pact is not dependent on Washington ratifying it, according to Zerbo. (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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U.N. General Assembly meeting

Lassina Zerbo, executive secretary of the preparatory commission of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, delivers a speech at a U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York on Sept. 6, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo