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Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
A picture taken on November 9, 2011, shows buildings at a military base in the small town of Nyonoska in Arkhangelsk region of Russia. (AFP)
August 19, 2019, 2:16 pm
Atomic watchdog: Russian monitoring stations ‘went silent’ after mystery blast
Moscow tells international officials communication issues have knocked offline 2 locations near missile testing site where deadly explosion killed several scientists
By TOI staff and Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Dr. Lassina Zerbo, executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, in Jerusalem on June 20, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
September 1, 2016, 1:29 pm
UN urges Israel to ratify nuclear test ban treaty
Praising regional impact of Iran deal, top official calls on Jerusalem to officially adopt moratorium on atomic testing
By Edith M. Lederer
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Dr. Lassina Zerbo, executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, in Jerusalem on June 20, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
June 23, 2016, 5:34 pm
UN official: Israel to ratify nuke test ban treaty within 5 years
Lassina Zerbo meets with PM Netanyahu, makes his case for the Jewish state to pick the ‘low-hanging fruit’ of the pact
By Judah Ari Gross
CTBTO Executive Secretary Lassina Zerbo (photo credit: AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
June 20, 2016, 3:19 pm
Israel confirms it’ll ratify nuke test ban, ‘at the right time’
Netanyahu tells UN official that commitment to treaty, which Jerusalem has already signed, depends on ‘regional context’
By Stuart Winer and AP
File: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on March 14, 2016 at the United Nations in New York (AFP/Don Emmert)
April 27, 2016, 4:18 pm
UN chief says end ‘madness’ of nuclear weapon testing
Ban Ki-moon urges world powers to finally sign 20-year-old Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
By AFP
The reactor building at the Russian-built nuclear power plant in Bushehr, in southern Iran, as the first fuel is loaded, August 21, 2010. (Iran International Photo Agency via Getty Images/via JTA)
January 29, 2016, 7:20 am
UN official: Iran, Israel could ratify nuke test ban treaty
Lassina Zerbo says nations’ agreement on matter may pave way for a nuclear free zone in Middle East
By Edith M. Lederer
In this Sept. 27, 2013 file photo, CTBTO Executive Secretary Lassina Zerbo speaks during a news conference regarding the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization Article XIV conference during the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
June 24, 2015, 4:01 am
UN nuclear test ban chief urges Iran to ratify pact
Lassina Zerbo urges Tehran, which shuttered its seismic nuclear test detection station in 2006, to prove it has no interest in nukes, ‘show great leadership’
By George Jahn
CTBTO Executive Secretary Lassina Zerbo (photo credit: AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
April 20, 2015, 5:02 pm
For Israel, nuclear test ban looks better in theory than practice
Lassina Zerbo, head of group administering the global treaty, makes case for ratification on trip to Jerusalem; his hosts are not yet convinced
By Mitch Ginsburg
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