The Inter-Parliamentary Union discusses ways to advance the CTBT

Alberto Romulo, Foreign Affairs Secretary of the Philippines (right), and Tibor Tóth, CTBTO Executive Secretary (left), meeting in Vienna on 3 March 2010.
“The moment has come to aim for the early entry into force of the CTBT.”
“World’s Parliamentary Conscience on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament”

The Inter-Parliamentary Union is holding its 122nd Assembly in Bangkok, Thailand, 27 March - 1 April 2010.
The IPU’s clear position in support of the CTBT
Alberto Romulo, Foreign Affairs Secretary of the Philippines.
“The CTBT is certainly one of the most effective measures that the international community can take to promote world peace and security.”
The CTBT – An effective measure to promote peace and security
“With the CTBT in force, a country with nuclear ambitions will be constrained to develop them while countries with arsenals will be constrained from improving them,” Romulo’s statement added. “Banning the testing of nuclear weapons […] is integral to building the confidence necessary to secure a world without nuclear weapons,” Jenkins said.

Harry Jenkins, Speaker of Australia's House of Representatives.
“I urge each of you to consider how as parliamentarians you can contribute to advancing global nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament.”
IPU Parliamentarians Have Crucial Role
“I urge each of you to consider how as parliamentarians you can contribute to advancing global nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament,” Jenkins told the meeting after outlining a number of possible activities parliamentarians could pursue to support the CTBT and other non-proliferation and disarmament measures. “The world’s parliamentarians have a crucial role to play to ensure humankind’s survival and that nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction would one day be consigned to history as a dark era in our collective past,” Romulo’s statement declared.

Tibor Tóth and Harry Jenkins (IPU Image).
The Treaty is “within political reach”
30 Mar 2010