Ambassador Nguyen Trung Kien, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), presents his credentials to Dr. Robert Floyd, Executive Secretary of the organization on August 6.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Austria Nguyen Trung Kien, who is also Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), made Vietnam’s commitment during a working session with Dr. Robert Floyd, Executive Secretary of the organization on August 6.

Kien said Vietnam highly appreciates the treaty’s role in ensuring security and reducing the risk of a nuclear crisis in regions and around the world. It signed the treaty in 1996, ratified it 10 years later, and strives to promote an early entry into force of the treaty.

The diplomat congratulated Robert Floyd on his election to the position of Executive Secretary of the CTBTO, and expressed his belief that having worked in the field of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament for years, Floyd will promote the organisation’s activities, helping raise the international community’s awareness about the dangers of nuclear weapons and ramp up the application of atomic technology for peaceful purposes and for sustainable development.

For his part, Floyd highly appreciated Vietnam’s role in contributing to preventing the development of nuclear weapons, noting the country has signed and ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). In the region, Vietnam is one of the active members of the Treaty on the Southeast Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone (SEANFWZ).

He suggested Vietnam continue promoting its role in lobbying countries, especially those specified in Annex II of the treaty, for early ratification of the treaty.

On the occasion, Floyd invited Vietnam to attend and make a contribution to the CTBTO’s upcoming conference on the implementation of Article 14 of the treaty, to be held on the sidelines of the 76th United Nations General Assembly.

Source: VOV

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