Examples of using Partial test-ban in English and their translations into Russian
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According to many experts it is also an important environmental-protection measure in line with the partial test-ban Treaty.
The definition given in the partial test-ban Treaty of 1963 provides a good basis for the CTBT scope definition.
It has participated actively in the consultations led by the President of the Amendment Conference on the partial test-ban Treaty.
Two years later a partial test-ban Treaty was concluded, and since then the Non-Aligned Movement has been pressing for a CTBT.
We are gratified to note that the question of the amendment of the partial test-ban Treaty is again featured in our agenda.
The partial test-ban Treaty and the chemical weapons Convention are useful models and tools for use in the work before us.
In the operative part,States that have not already done so are urged to adhere to the partial test-ban Treaty.
At the same time, the Amendment Conference of States Parties to the partial test-ban Treaty should continue to conduct parallel negotiations.
In the case of efforts to ban nuclear testing,a good start was made as long ago as 1963 by the conclusion of the partial test-ban Treaty.
The move to underground testing, after the 1963 partial test-ban Treaty, also reduced the visibility of the nuclear threat.
On the vexing question of the scope of the treaty, my delegation favours a simple article based on article I of the partial test-ban treaty.
As to the definition of tests,the wording in the partial test-ban Treaty, although imperfect, offers a sufficient basis.
On the question of the scope of the treaty,the South African delegation at the Conference on Disarmament has made it clear that it favours a simple article based on article 1 of the partial test-ban Treaty.
Since the conclusion of the Partial Test-Ban Treaty, the efforts of the international community to ban nuclear-weapon tests have continued in two directions.
At a time when over one hundred atmospheric tests were being conducted each year, the partial test-ban Treaty of 1963 provided a dose of environmental sanity.
The definitions in the partial test-ban Treaty of 1963 provide, in our opinion, a goods basis for the CTBT definitions, with the necessary addition of underground explosions.
The draft text does, in fact,not contain a comprehensive but only another partial test-ban treaty which bans only nuclear test explosions.
It was much easier to convert the partial test-ban Treaty into a comprehensive test-ban treaty than to negotiate a completely new instrument within the Conference on Disarmament.
However, the international community succeeded in taking limited steps through the partial test-ban Treaty in 1963 and the threshold test-ban Treaty in 1974.
Hence, serious concerted efforts should be undertaken by the Conference on Disarmament in conjunction with broader multilateral endeavours in the Amendment Conference on the partial test-ban Treaty.
But there are also examples in the field of disarmament, such as the Partial Test-Ban Treaty, where an initiative taken by a few countries was later endorsed by many others.
As NPT Parties, the five had undertaken to continue negotiations"to seek to achieve the discontinuation of all test explosions of nuclearweapons for all time", as the text of the Partial Test-Ban Treaty(PTBT) put it.
At the same time, the States parties to the partial test-ban Treaty are continuing to work actively towards the prompt conclusion of a comprehensive test-ban treaty.
It also supported the consultations being conducted by the President of the Amendment Conference of the partial test-ban treaty, which it had been agreed should be continued with a view to resuming the Conference.
The multilateral 1963 partial test-ban Treaty as well as the bilateral 1974 threshold test-ban Treaty and the 1976 peaceful nuclear explosions Treaty have all been limited in scope.
Another approach, which attracted a great deal of attention, was a proposal to convert the Partial Test-Ban Treaty into a comprehensive test-ban treaty through an amendment procedure.
It has given birth to such agreements as the partial test-ban Treaty, the nuclear non-proliferation Treaty, the sea-bed Treaty, the biological weapons Convention and the chemical weapons Convention.
Its our understanding that this proposal does not contradict the provisions of the 1963 Moscow partial test-ban Treaty and provides for an extension of the prohibition contained in that treaty to the underground environment.
More than 30 years ago,the signatories of the partial test-ban Treaty established the goal of achieving"the discontinuance of all test explosions of nuclear weapons for all time," a goal that was reaffirmed by the non-proliferation Treaty.
The following year, 1979,the three nuclear-weapon States parties to the Partial Test-Ban Treaty- the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States- resumed trilateral talks on a comprehensive test-ban treaty.