China
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France
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France has participated to all the conferences on facilitating the entry into force of the CTBT organised from 2003 to 2022 and presented in each its measures taken to promote the entry into force of the Treaty, including working papers, side-events and support to the International Monitoring System (IMS).
It reported to the 2011 Conference the work done to promote entry into force as co-president of the Conference with Morocco. During this co-chairmanship, five new states ratified the CTBT.
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France has participated to the conferences on facilitating the entry into force of the CTBT organised in 2023 and 2025 and presented in each its measures taken to promote the entry into force of the Treaty, including working papers, side-events and support to the International Monitoring System (IMS).
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CTBTO. Activities Undertaken by Signatory and Ratifying States Under Measure (L) of the Final Declaration of the 2025 Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Treaty in the Period June 2023 – May 2025. CTBT-Art.XIV/2025/4. May 2025. https://www.ctbto.org/sites/default/files/2025-09/CTBT-Art.XIV-2025-4.pdf
CTBTO. Présentation du rapport des coprésidences française et marocaine [Presentation of the report by the French and Moroccan co-chairs] (2009 -2011). 23 September 2011. https://www.ctbto.org/sites/default/files/2022-07/france_fr_2011.pdf
Russia
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United Kingdom
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United States
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The United States continued to abide by its nuclear testing moratorium following President Clinton’s signature of the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT); however, in 1999 the U.S. Senate did not provide its advice and consent for ratification. The successful arguments against the treaty largely centred around a perceived lack of confidence in the continued safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile without the ability to conduct explosive tests. As a result of the non-ratification of the United States, among others, the CTBT did not enter into force during this period.
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The United States has not ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.
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United States Senate. “Roll Call Vote 106th Congress – 1st Session.” 13 October 1999. https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1061/vote_106_1_00325.htm.
United States Senate. “Privilege Of The Floor (Executive Session);” Congressional Record Vol. 145, No. 136. 8 October 1999. https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-145/issue-136/senate-section/article/S12264-1.