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MALTA RATIFIES THE COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR-TEST-BAN TREATY (CTBT)
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21/08/2001
21/08/2001
| In the wake of Parliament’s approval on 21 March | 2001 to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Malta’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, deposited Malta’s Instrument of Ratification of the said Treaty with the UN Secretary General on 23 July 2001. |
| In a letter subsequently sent to the Minister of | Foreign Affairs, the Executive Secretariat of the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty Organisation expressed appreciation for Malta’s ratification of the Treaty adding that the "Maltese ratification represents an important step forward in the achievement of universality of the Treaty" . |
| The Treaty creates an absolute prohibition against | the conduct of nuclear weapon test explosions or any other nuclear explosion anywhere. Specifically, each State Party undertakes not to carry out any nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion; to prohibit and prevent any nuclear explosion at any place under its jurisdiction or control; and to refrain from causing, encouraging, or in any way participating in the carrying out of any nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion. |
| The Treaty has not yet entered into force. It will | enter into force 180 days after the date of deposit of the instruments of ratification by all 44 States listed in the relevant Annex to the Treaty. |
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