| Summary/Abstract |
After participating in the negotiations on the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, I was elected the first executive secretary of the organization and started my work in 1997. At that time, we hoped that the treaty would enter into force only a few years after the International Monitoring System would be working. But today, twenty years after opening for signature, we are still waiting. The reason is a rather complicated formula for entry into force: all states with nuclear capabilities at the time of the treaty's negotiation must ratify.
|