Visit to Japan of Dr. Wolfgang Hoffmann, Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) Organization
May 30, 2000
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Dr. Wolfgang Hoffmann, Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) Organization, will visit Japan from May 31 (Wed) to June 3 (Sat) at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- During his stay in Japan, Dr. Hoffmann will meet with Mr. Yohei Kono, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Tetsuro Yano, Chairman, Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, House of Councillors, to exchange views on the facilitating the entry-into-force of the CTBT. Dr. Hoffmann will also meet with the Director-General of the Japan Meteorological Agency and others concerned from the organizations in Japan that are related to the CTBT to exchange views on the improvement of the international monitoring system to detect nuclear explosion, which is stipulated in the Treaty.
- Japan chaired the first Conference on Facilitating the Entry-into- Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. Until the next Conference, Japan, as the coordinator to facilitate entry-into-force, will urge the countries that have not yet ratified or signed the Treaty to ratify the CTBT as early as possible. Japan, therefore, intends to continue promoting actively and effectively the early entry-into-force of the CTBT, on the basis of the outcome of the recent 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
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