A comprehensive ban on nuclear tests is one of the key questions facing the international community.

There is now, for example, an historic opportunity to conclude a comprehensive test ban treaty.

These are important steps, in conformity with the aim of international negotiations for a comprehensive test ban.

It would be difficult to bring about a universal ban on landmines unless and until viable alternatives were available.

We hail the decision to commence substantive negotiations aimed at a comprehensive nuclear test ban.

The need for a comprehensive ban on all nuclear testing is indeed a top priority issue.

In 1978, India called for a total prohibition of the use of nuclear weapons on these grounds.

For this reason, the Conference on Disarmament has been given a clear and explicit mandate to negotiate a comprehensive ban on nuclear testing.

Negotiations are well under way at the Conference on Disarmament on a comprehensive test ban treaty (CTBT).

In the context of comprehensive peace the dangers of the proliferation of nuclear weapons would pose a threat to the future of the whole region.

We therefore see a need for oversight and strict legislation, but not for an outright ban.

A blanket ban on all types of anti personnel landmines might therefore be counter productive.

Welcoming the decision of the Conference on Disarmament to give its Ad Hoc Committee a mandate to negotiate a comprehensive test ban,

The Conference affirms that observance of the existing moratorium on nuclear testing should not substitute for a comprehensive ban on nuclear weapon testing.

We believe that this policy of collective security must be supplemented by a policy of disarmament and a universal ban on nuclear weapons.

We are encouraged by the support already expressed for a total ban on anti personnel land mines and feel confident that, once the full implications of the inhuman effects of these mines on civilian populations are fully realized, the world community will agree on the need for a complete prohibition.

I welcome also the very considerable progress made in the reduction of nuclear arsenals and towards a comprehensive test ban treaty.

The early conclusion of a comprehensive test ban will undoubtedly have a favourable impact on a decision to extend the NPT.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for a full arms embargo of Zimbabwe, a position clearly targeted at the Chinese.

We support the extension of the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons beyond 1995 and the proposal for the negotiation of a comprehensive test ban.

The Secretary General, Mr. Boutros Boutros Ghali, is among the world leaders who have called for a comprehensive ban.

In May 2006, Ontario instituted a comprehensive province wide smoke free law which extended the restrictions to all cities and municipalities in Ontario.

4. The urgency for achieving a comprehensive test ban, as well as the need for an expeditious means to realize this objective, was emphasized by the special meeting.

As we reduce our nuclear stockpiles, the United States has also begun negotiations towards a comprehensive ban on nuclear testing.

3. The special meeting further welcomed the decision of the Conference on Disarmament to give its Ad Hoc Committee on a Nuclear Test Ban a mandate to negotiate a comprehensive test ban.

We urge all nuclear States not to carry out further tests and to continue negotiations towards a comprehensive test ban.

(a) Pursuing work for a comprehensive test ban in the Amendment Conference and the Conference on Disarmament in a mutually supportive and mutually complementary manner

In lieu of the division between the two prevailing schools of thought, one advocating the prohibition of any weapons in outer space and the other advocating prohibition of offensive weapons, an approach that aims for a comprehensive global cooperative security order' was suggested.

As a party to the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Benin, which considers chemical weapons to be weapons of mass destruction, participates in meetings organized by the Technical Secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on various aspects of the development, manufacture, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and their destruction.

Important steps have been taken to detarget strategic missiles. Multilateral negotiations on a comprehensive nuclear test ban have begun.

It is a well known fact that for decades Sweden has worked actively and consistently for nuclear disarmament and for an ultimate total ban on nuclear weapons.

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There it was resolved that the pursuit of a comprehensive nuclear test ban now taking place in the Amendment Conference and the Conference on Disarmament should be mutually supportive and complementary.

473. To be viable, a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty should be universal, verifiable and of indefinite duration.

The detonation of nuclear weapons represents a setback to the efforts to negotiate a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty, the conclusion of which Argentina firmly supports.

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I have characterized the report as comprehensive, and it is.

The Security Council had at the very beginning of the crisis in the former Yugoslavia adopted a decision to implement a comprehensive arms embargo against the whole territory of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

The issue of the timely and full implementation of agreements on the reduction of nuclear weapons and the complete prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons should not escape the priority attention of the world community.

The Republic of Belarus also favours the beginning of multilateral negotiations to draft the relevant documents on a comprehensive nuclear test ban and on ending the production of fissile material for military purposes.

Progress towards negotiating a comprehensive nuclear test ban, the signing of the chemical weapons Convention, the establishment of a Register on conventional arms these are important milestones on this road.

The entire structure of the Convention is an example of what can be achieved in the area of disarmament through a complete ban on one type of weapon of mass destruction.