Indonesia latest country to sign CTBT – The Express Tribune: "UNITED NATIONS: Indonesia on Monday formalised ratification of the nuclear test ban treaty at the United Nations and its foreign minister called on eight key holdout nations to take a “calculated risk” and sign on.
Indonesia is the 157th country to adopt the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) but eight more nations in a core group of 44 nuclear countries – China, Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Russia and United States – must still ratify to bring the global ban into force.
Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said a “trust deficit” over the intentions of other nuclear states often holds back countries.
“These countries must have the courage to step out of their comfort zone and to take some kind of a calculated risk that their positive moved will be reciprocated,” Natalegawa told reporters after formally handing over Indonesia’s ratification documents to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon."
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