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PRESS RELEASE


CTBT DELAY : nuclear powers, and France in particular, are accountable...,
believes the Mouvement de la Paix (France)


The agreement on the draft CTBT is postponed. A major hope is being defeated.

Nuclear powers, not France, have a major task in seeing to it that the
drafted text be accepted as early as possible this Summer, and presented and
signed at the opening of the UNGA, mid September.

Public opinion cannot tolerate this last minute challenge of a draft treaty
making it possible to stop the nuclear arms race, to boost disarmament.

France, like other nuclear powers should concretely demonstrate her will to
push further nuclear disarmament, in accordance to her commitment to NPT
article 6.
Such a commitment is incompatible with lab testing, new nuclear missile and
warhead programmes as envisaged with the 20 billion dollars in the military
programme. The continued development of new nuclear weapons, by France and
the US in particular, has poisoned the atmosphere of the Geneva
negotiations. Such programmes should be cancelled.

Next week, the Mouvement de la Paix will address all peace forces to develop
public opinion action. The Mouvement de la Paix immediately urges all peace
committees to increase support to its national petition to stop testing and
for a nuclear-weapon free world, which has already received 20,000 signatures.


June 28, 1996
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< Daniel Durand - Mouvement de la Paix    >
< Tel: +33 77 57 07 76 Fax: +33 77 57 23 69 >
< Email: ddurand@babel.asi.fr >
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