11 October 1999 - Greenpeace is urging the U.S. Senate to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty when it comes up for a vote in the Senate on October 12th. Greenpeace called on governments around the world to take diplomatic measures to encourage U.S. ratification of the treaty.
The Clinton administration in the US has been seeking the approval of the Senate to ratify the CTBT since 1996, while the Republicans have consistently opposed hearings in the Senate with the aim of rejecting ratification of the Treaty.
"The only countries who will benefit if the U.S. do not ratify, and sink the CTBT, will be proliferators, the 'wanna-be' nuclear weapons states, and the 'hawks' in the US, and China and Russia who still wish to return to nuclear testing and to developing new and more deadly nuclear weapons," Greenpeace's Stephanie Mills said.
