On
Nuclear Test
Ban, Toth
Hopes for
Obama 1-Liner,
The View of
Egypt
Non-Static
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 24
-- With
President
Barack Obama
headed to "The
View"
television
show before
delivering a
speech Tuesday
morning
in the UN
General
Assembly,
Inner City
Press on
Monday put the
question of
whether Obama
will mention a
ban on testing
nuclear
weapons to
Tibor Toth,
Executive
Secretary of
the
Preparatory
Commission for
the
Comprehensive
Nuclear
Test-Ban
Treaty
Organization.
Toth
replied,
"Personally I
would wish a
one liner...
we will have
to
see." He went
out, in
UN-ese, that
it is "robust
action"
that is most
important. Video
here, from
Minute 22:15
But
where? Inner
City Press
also asked
Toth if there
had in his
view been
any movement
in the past
year toward
the US
ratifying the
CTBT.
Toth
cited a
National
Academy of
Science report
on
verifiability,
saying
it is an
"important
ingredient for
the Senate to
resume
consideration
of the Test
Ban Treaty," a
review he
hopes will be
"on the
merits." Video
here, from
Minute 18:06.
Inner
City Press
also asked him
if events in
the past year
in Egypt made
him think
ratification
there is any
more likely.
He answered
obliquely,
that regions
-- he mixes
Asia / Pacific
with the
Middle
East -- should
be viewed in a
"non-static
way." Ya don't
say. Watch
this site.
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