Iraq announces supporting the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

INA - BAGHDAD 

Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein announced on Saturday, Iraq's support for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty - CTBT in the context of achieving the goals for which it was established.

This came during a meeting between Hussein and the Executive Director of the Interim Preparatory Committee for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, Robert Floyd, at Vienna International Center, according to a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA). 

Hussein congratulated Floyd on the occasion of assuming the duties of his new position as executive director of the temporary preparatory committee for the organization, as of 1/8/2021, and showed Iraq's full support for him in the context of achieving the goals for which the CTBT Treaty was established.

Both highlighted the importance of the principle of equitable geographical distribution and rotation and the principle of gender balance in the temporary technical secretariat of the organization and its subcommittees as well as the working groups, and called for the need to “strengthen the presence of these two principles in the work entrusted to it,”


Floyd pointed out, according to the statement, “the importance of Iraq’s participation in the upcoming Article XIV conference of the treaty on promoting the entry into force of the treaty, which will be held on the sidelines of the high-level meetings of the United Nations General Assembly during September 2021, within the framework of joint action, to achieve “the universality of the Treaty as soon as possible, and to benefit from its role in strengthening the nuclear non-proliferation regime,”