UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, foreign ministers and other high-level representatives of States Signatories to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) gathered at the UN Headquarters in New York on 29 September 2015 to promote the entry into force of the Treaty that bans all nuclear testing.
Hungary and Indonesia is succeeded by Japan and Kazakhstan as co-chairs of the Article XIV Conference, two countries with incredible moral authority and a wealth of hard-earned knowledge when it comes to nuclear disarmament.
The Article XIV. Conference concludes the two-year period between 2013 and 2015, during which the Foreign Ministers of Hungary and Indonesia coordinated efforts related to the early entry into force of the Treaty. During the two year period three more countries, namely Niue, Congo and Angola, have ratified the Treaty.
Despite 183 signatory and 167 ratifying States, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) has yet to come into force, due to the non-ratification of 8 nuclear powers, the remaining so called Annex-2 States.
In his concluding statement H.E. Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade has emphasized that “only a Treaty in force will confine the chapter of nuclear testing to history books” and appealed to all States to make their utmost effort to achieve the entry into force of the CTBT at the earliest possible date.
Please find the full statement of Minister Szijjártó here.
