Traduction de «comprehensive test ban treaty » (Anglais → Français) :

Developments outside the review process also prevented progress: there was the 2003 invasion of Iraq - led by the United States and Britain and launched on the pretext that Iraq possessed nuclear weapons - the failure to bring into force the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the United States’ withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, along with the failure of states to commence negotiations on a treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons.

24. Notes the approval by the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) of the US-India civil nuclear accord (and of the Indian pledge to abide by its non-proliferation commitments and to uphold a voluntary moratorium on testing atomic weapons); fears nevertheless that this deal creates a dangerous precedent, because India, while abiding by it, has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT); asks India, therefore, to sign and ratify it; recalls that India has not ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and strongly encourages it to do so;

(au) is concerned about the stalemate in disarmament-related negotiations on such issues as a fissile material cut-off treaty and a verification protocol for the biological weapons convention as well as a lack of movement in ratifying the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; nevertheless recognises that the 63rd UN session offers the EU an excellent opportunity to show leadership in promoting ratification and universalisation of the recently agreed treaty banning cluster munitions, and in opening negotiations with a view to the conclusion of an International Arms Trade Treaty and an international treaty imposing a global ban on depleted urani ...[+++]um weapons; calls on the EU and the UN to continue their efforts towards strengthening the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons, and expanding the scope of the Ottawa Treaty banning landmines,

26. Urges the Council to discuss with its US counterparts how to make a positive approach to future Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committees (NPT PrepComs) as a first opportunity to strengthen the global non-nuclear proliferation regime in the run-up to the NPT Review Conference in 2010; underlines in this context the need to discuss at the summit a number of nuclear disarmament initiatives based on the ‘13 practical steps’ agreed to unanimously at the 2000 NPT Review Conference; reiterates its view that, inter alia, such steps break the deadlock on the adoption of a verifiable Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty and facilitate the entry into force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty ...[+++]; points out that this should also include the non-modernisation of nuclear arsenals in the US, France and the UK, and the withdrawal of US nuclear warheads from European territory; urges the Council to take a leadership role in starting negotiations on the ‘nuclear weapons convention’ aimed at globally banning all nuclear weapons;

38. Calls on the countries defined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty as nuclear-weapon states, in particular the USA, China and Russia, in view of the uncontrollably spreading danger of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, to review their own nuclear policies in the spirit of the Non-Proliferation Treaty; regrets, therefore, the efforts made by the US administration over the last four years to promote research into, and the development of, new nuclear weapons and its refusal to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; expresses concern at Russia's inadequate efforts to protect its nuclear stocks; is alarmed a ...[+++]t China's massive increase in military spending (12,6%), its comprehensive modernisation of its nuclear armed forces and the increase in its imports of modern weapons technologies;

The signatory states to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) (FR), adopted in 1996, have set up a Preparatory Commission to carry out the effective implementation of the CTBT pending the establishment of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO).