Where should a total ban be negotiated?

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The Ottawa Process has greatly strengthened momentum towards a total ban on APLs.

The Kingdom of Morocco, which supports a total ban on nuclear tests, has signed and ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

The only effective solution to the landmine crisis is a total ban on APLs.

Secondly, it would help us to press forward to the goal of a total, global ban.

In reaction, an international strategy has been set up aiming at a total ban on APLs.

The international community should support a total ban on the production, use, trading and stockpiling of landmines.

During the past year, the international support for a total ban on anti personnel landmines has grown.

Based on the reality of the situation, a total ban would not lead to a practical or effective solution.

The study provided yet more compelling evidence for action by Governments to impose a total ban on landmines.

This is a channel for like minded countries to speedily conclude an international agreement on a total ban on APLs.

It will spare no effort to secure this total ban which the situation demands.

And, in common with many others, we have pledged our support for a total, global ban on these weapons.

Sweden supported a total ban on reproductive cloning, which violated human dignity, and planned to introduce legislation to that effect.

By coming out in favour of a total ban, we have opted for negotiations on an entirely new disarmament treaty.

This is the instrument by which we can respond to international momentum to accelerate the process towards a total ban.

My delegation apos s short statement today is devoted to the question of a total ban on anti personnel landmines.

Hungary is firmly committed to a total and comprehensive ban as the most effective solution to the global landmine crisis.

In our view it is crucial that any negotiating mandate agreed upon should stipulate a clear obligation to reach a total ban.

We must seek progressive, step by step agreement, with measures negotiated one after the other, leading gradually to a total ban.

7. The Government responded to these attacks by imposing a total flight ban over the entire region of Bahr Al Ghazal.

Accordingly, the Union has undertaken to explore all possible ways of helping to bring about a total ban on anti personnel landmines.

We believe that this process has helped to create and maintain the necessary momentum to promote the cause for a total ban.

A global ban on nuclear weapons and their total elimination is the ultimate objective within the framework of general and complete disarmament.

A moratorium on the production and use of highly enriched uranium for civilian use should be negotiated, with a total ban as a long term objective.

For example, we think that the commencement of negotiations focusing on a total ban on the export of landmines would be a good starting point.

Hungary seeks to raise the issue of a total ban on the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of anti personnel landmines in a multilateral context.

In 2005, after years of research, education and lobbying, the ICFTU launched a campaign for a total worldwide ban on the production and use of asbestos following a ruling by the World Trade Organization against an appeal by Canada of a ban by France that paved the way for more countries to support a worldwide ban.

During the general debate 44 speakers took the floor and an overwhelming majority of them supported the adoption of a total ban convention.

Perhaps most encouraging is the fact that the tide of support for a total ban on anti personnel landmines (APL) has become irreversible.

We suspect that it is distorted by those who do not share it, those who oppose a total ban on anti personnel landmines.

A number of developments have taken place aimed at building the political support of the international community for reaching a total ban on anti personnel mines.

The momentum of this process, which is fully compatible with other initiatives to pursue a total ban, has to be maintained and further developed.

An agreement in the CD seems to be blocked by the fact that many members cannot for the time being accept a total ban.

Norway has offered to host a follow up meeting in Oslo to facilitate the conclusion and signing of a convention on a total ban in Ottawa in December.

The Court also ruled that nations are under a duty to negotiate a total ban on further development and the elimination of existing stockpiles of nuclear weapons.

In 1995, in the Vienna Review Conference of the 1980 Convention, Mexico was the first country to favour a total ban on anti personnel mines.

11. The United Nations will take every opportunity to stigmatize the continuing use of landmines and to support a total ban on anti personnel landmines.

Twenty five thousand victims a year are more than enough to make the achievement of a legally binding total ban on these weapons a matter of the utmost urgency.

1. Reaffirms its support for a total ban on the production, stockpiling, transfer and use of anti personnel landmines, as a means to protect the right to life

It is the view of Australia that a truly global and effective ban on anti personnel landmines will be achieved only when major users, producers and exporters are brought in a practical and concrete way into the march towards the goal of a total and comprehensive ban.

But the main purpose is to work towards an international agreement imposing a total ban on the transfer, production, use and storage of anti personnel landmines.

As for the negotiating forum, Japan supports the CD because we attach great importance to the realization of a global and effective total ban on APLs.

My Government has reached the conclusion that a total ban on production, transfer and use of APLs would be the only way to stop this plague.