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2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
International Affairs: Mr. Tth, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is one of the main elements of the world's nuclear security. What does your Preparatory Commission expect to accomplish?
Tibor Tth: Practically, compared to the big brothers and big sisters in this building, which houses many other international organizations, we are a teenager, we will be 15 years old as a treaty on 24 September; as an organization, we are 14 years old. We came 40 years later than the IAEA yet we are doing very complimentary things. There is a relationship between what IAEA is supposed to do and what we are supposed to do. IAEA is trying to prevent a potential misuse of technologies, misuse of fissile material and misuse of facilities. If it fails and if countries try out weapons they create as a result of diverting fissile material technologies for military purposes the results will appear on the screen. NPT belongs to the IAEA context; I think that the test ban treaty as an organization is part of a wider NPT regime.
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