CTBTO Preparatory Commission

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Did you know that the International Monitoring System (IMS) network consists of 337 monitoring facilities all over the globe, comprising seismic, infrasound, hydroacoustic and radionuclide monitoring stations as well as radionuclide laboratories?

Advisory Group 30th Session II:	13-16 May 2008
Working Group A 33rd Session:	2-4 June 2008
PrepCom 30th Session:	23-26 June 2008
Complete 2008 calendar of events

	What does the press say about the CTBT and the CTBTO? We have compiled a selection of articles for your convenience. The daily press review will be posted workdays.

The test-ban figures prominently in meeting of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty

8 May 2008
Almost universal support for the CTBT is expressed at meeting of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in Geneva.

6 May 2008

Information about States Signatories’ assessed payments to the CTBTO Preparatory Commission has been updated (PDF format). The CTBTO has a split budget, expressed partly in US$ and partly in Euros. The total budget is a combination of the two.

21 April 2008
Entry into force of the CTBT will be discussed at the next major meeting
of the Inter Parliamentary Union in 2009.

28 March 2008
Speaker of the Austrian Parliament visits the CTBTO in preparations for international assembly of parliamentarians.

06 March 2008:	Launch of international scientific study project to evaluate the nuclear test ban verification system
26 February 2008:	The United States pays US$ 23.8 million to the CTBTO