On 8/9/06, Leigh Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
F-ck The World, The U.N.'s nuclear test-ban treaty doesn't apply to them.
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Ethiopia ratifies nuclear test-ban treaty as US, China, Iran and Israel
remain holdouts
Joshua Pantesco at 1:31 PM ET
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/08/ethiopia-ratifies-nuclear-test-ban.php
[JURIST] Ethiopia [JURIST news archive] on Tuesday submitted its
ratification [press release] of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban
Treaty (CTBT) [text; VRS backgrounder, PDF] to the UN Secretary-General.
The CTBT bans any nuclear explosion, for testing purposes or otherwise,
and was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1996. Thirty-four of the
44 signatories possessing nuclear research and power capabilities at
that time have ratified the treaty, and the treaty requires ratification
from all those signatory nations to enter into force.
A total of 176 states worldwide have signed the treaty, so far ratified
by 135. Among the key holdouts are the United States, China, Egypt,
India, Indonesia, Iran, and Israel. In January, the US boycotted a UN
conference [JURIST report] designed to encourage the then-11 nuclear
holdouts, who now number 10, to sign the treaty. FAS has more.
Have I mentioned that Washington agrees with Tehran on denying GLBT
orgs UN consultative status, too?
<blockquote>United Nations: U.S. Aligned With Iran in Anti-Gay Vote
Rice Must Explain Repressive UN Ban on LGBT Rights Groups
(Washington, D.C., January 25, 2006) - In a reversal of policy, the
United States on Monday backed an Iranian initiative to deny United
Nations consultative status to organizations working to protect the
rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. In a
letter to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, a coalition of 40
organizations, led by the Human Rights Campaign, Human Rights Watch,
the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, and the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, called for an explanation of the
vote which aligned the United States with governments that have long
repressed the rights of sexual minorities.
<http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/01/25/iran12535.htm></blockquote>
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