2016: CTBT20 Ministerial Meeting
About the CTBT20 Conference
The 20 Years CTBT Ministerial Meeting brought together leaders and policymakers to discuss, review, and reinvigorate the discussion on the CTBT. By providing a venue for participants to voice their needs, security concerns, and demands, the Ministerial Meeting stimulated the discussion needed on the issues currently blocking the entry into force of the worldwide ban on nuclear explosions.
This year represents an opportune moment to engage in these discussions. Marking 20 years after the Treaty opened for signature, the eight remaining Annex 2 countries that have still to ratify the Treaty were invited to join Member States and the CTBTO to discuss what is required to turn the global moratorium on nuclear testing from de facto into de jure.
Other events held on the sidelines of the Ministerial Meeting included a civil society panel entitled “CTBT@20: The Way Forward - The role of Civil Society” and the opening of the CTBT@20 exhibition.
The High Level Ministerial Meeting started on 13 June 2016, at the Vienna International Centre, Vienna, Austria
Conference Programme
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Monday 13 June 2016
| TIME | DETAILS | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
| 10:15 | Opening of the forty-sixth Session of the Preparatory Commission: Ministerial Meeting (open to media) | Board Room B, M-Building |
| 11:30 | Ministerial Roundtable Discussion (closed to media) | Conference Room M2, M-Building |
| 12:30 | Press stake-out | Outside main entrance to Board Room B, M-Building |
| 13:10 | Opening of the CTBT@20 Exhibition | VIC Rotunda |
| 14:45 | Press stake-out Lazăr Comănescu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania, and CTBTO Executive Secretary Lassina Zerbo |
Outside main entrance to Board Room B, M-Building |
| 15:00 | Ministerial Meeting resumes (open to media) | Board Room B, M-Building |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | Side Event CTBT@20: The Way Forward - The role of Civil Society (open to media) |
Conference Room M2, M-Building |
| 15:00 | Side Event Organized by the Permanent Mission of the United States |
Conference Room M3, M-Building |
Tuesday 14 June 2016
| TIME | DETAILS | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 | Resumption of the forty-sixth Session of the Preparatory Commission | Board Room C, M-Building |
| 10:00 | Meeting of the CTBTO Group of Eminent Persons (GEM) (closed) | Conference Room C0213, C-Building |
| 10:00 | Meeting of the CTBTO Youth Group (CYG) (closed) | Conference Room C5, C-Building |
| 10:30 | Media Roundtable Organized by the Permanent Mission of the United States Rose Gottemoeller, U.S Department of State Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security and Madelyn Creedon, U.S. Department of Energy Principal Deputy Administrator for the National Nuclear Security Administration |
Conference Room C4, M-Building |
| 14:30 | Joint meeting of the GEM and CYG (closed) | Conference Room C0213, C-Building |
| 15:00 | Continuation of the forty-sixth Session of the Preparatory Commission | Board Room C, M-Building |
Statements as Received by Organizations or Group
| Organization | Speaker |
|---|---|
| Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization | Lassina Zerbo CTBTO Executive Secretary |
| United Nations | Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General delivered by Kim Won-soo, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs |
| Group of Eminent Persons (GEM) | |
| CTBTO Youth Group | |
| Civil Society | Daryl Kimball, Executive Director, Arms Control Association |
Statements by Country
| State | Speaker |
|---|---|
| Afghanistan | Najibullah Alikhil, Director of Border Affairs and Security Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| Algeria (French) | Rachid Beladhane, Director General of Political Affairs and International Security |
| Argentina (Spanish) | Carlos Mario Foradori, Deputy Foreign Minister |
| Armenia | Ashot Hovakimian, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Australia | Richard Sadleir, First Assistant Secretary, International Security Division |
| Austria | Sebastian Kurz, Foreign Minister |
| Azerbaijan, with enclosure | |
| Bangladesh | |
| Belgium (French) | Armand De Decker, Minister of State |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Igor Crnadak, Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Brazil | Ambassador Laercio Vinhas |
| Burkina_Faso (French) | Alpha Barry, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Burkinabe Living abroad |
| Chile (Spanish) | Alfredo Labbé, Director General for Foreign Policy |
| China | Li Baodong, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Croatia | Amir Muharemi, Assistant Minister, Directorate-General for Multilateral and Global Affairs |
| Dominican Republic for GRULAC (Spanish) | Ambassador Ramon Quiñones |
| Ecuador | Ambassador Pastor Morris |
| Ethiopia | |
| European Union Video |
Federica Mogherini, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy |
| Finland | Ambassador Anu Laamanen |
| France (French) | Hélène Duchene, Directrice des Affaires stratégiques, de Sécurité et du Désarmement |
| Spain (Spanish) | Ignacio Ybáñez Rubio, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs |
| Germany | Patricia Flor, Commissioner and Head of the Federal Foreign Office’s Directorate-General for International Order, the United Nations and Arms Control |
| Holy See | The Reverend Monsignor Janusz S. Urbańczyk |
| Hungary | István Mikola, Minister of State for Security Policy and International Cooperation |
| Iran (Islamic Republic of) | Hamid Baeidinejad, Director-General for International Political and Security Affairs |
| Iraq (Arabic) | Omar Barzanji, Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and Multilateral Relations |
| Ireland | Joe McHugh, TD, Minister of State for the Diaspora and International Development |
| Italy | Ambassador Filippo Formica |
| Japan | Seiji Kihara, State Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| Jordan (Arabic) | |
| Kazakhstan | Erlan A. Idrissov, Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| Kuwait (Arabic) | |
| Latvia | Ambassador Bahtijors Hasans |
| The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia | Ambassador Kire Ilioski |
| Malta | |
| Mexico (Spanish) | |
| Mongolia | Ambassador Batjargal Gunaajav |
| New_Zealand | Ambassador Deborah Geels |
| Nigeria | Geoffrey Onyeama, Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| Norway | Tone Skogen, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs |
| NPDI | |
| Pakistan | Ambassador Ayesha Riyaz |
| Philippines | Mario Montejo, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology |
| Portugal | Ambassador Moitinho de Almeida |
| Republic of Korea | Jong-moon Choi, Deputy Minister for Multilateral and Global Affairs |
| Romania | Laz?r Com?nescu, Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| Serbia | Branimir Filipovi?, Acting Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for Security Policy |
| Singapore | Ambassador Foo Kok Jwee |
| Slovakia | Miroslav Laj?ák, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs |
| Slovenia | Sanja Štiglic, Director-General for Multilateral Affairs, Development Cooperation and International Law |
| Spain (Spanish) | Ignacio Ybáñez Rubio, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs |
| South Africa | Ambassador Tebogo Seokolo |
| Sweden | Annika Söder, State Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| Turkey | |
| Ukraine | Pavlo Klimkin, Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| United Arab Emirates | |
| United Kingdom | Tobias Ellwood, Under Secretary of State |
| United States | Rose Gottemoeller, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security |
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Group of Eminent Persons (GEM)
CTBTO Youth Group Report for the CTBT 20th Anniversary
Exhibition
Throughout June, the Vienna International Centre’s Rotunda will host a large exhibition on the CTBT and its organization. Exhibits include on-site inspection equipment not made available to the public before; artworks and photography inspired by the issue of nuclear testing from China, Kazakhstan and other countries as well as the 360 virtual reality film installation “Collisions” (13-16 June) starring an Australian indigenous elder who experienced nuclear testing in his homelands.
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