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"On 10 June 1998, Tajikistan became the fourteenth country to have deposited its instrument of ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
The 13 other countries to have ratified the Treaty are: Austria, Czech Republic, Fiji, France, Japan, Micronesia, Mongolia, Peru, Qatar, Slovakia, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom and Uzbekistan. Six of them (Austria, France, Japan, Peru, Slovakia and the United Kingdom) belong to the group of 44 States listed in the Treaty whose ratification is necessary for its entry into force. Two of them (France and the United Kingdom) are nuclear-weapon States. To date, 149 States have signed the Treaty.
The Treaty will enter into force 180 days after it has been signed and ratified by the 44 countries that formally participated in the work of the 1996 session of the Conference on Disarmament and that possess nuclear facilities. China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States were among the first States Signatories of the Treaty. A Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization is carrying out the necessary preparations for the effective implementation of the Treaty. The Commission is establishing the global verification regime foreseen in the Treaty, including an International Monitoring System, which will consist of a network of 321 seismic, hydroacoustic, infrasound and radionuclide stations. The System will verify that no nuclear tests are conducted in the atmosphere, underground or under water.
The Provisional Technical Secretariat of the Preparatory Commission started work in Vienna on 17 March 1997 under its Executive Secretary, Wolfgang Hoffmann of Germany."
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