ALGERIA
 
 

SHORT SPEECH
OF
Its Excellence Mr. Abdelaziz Belkhadem
Minister of State, Foreign Minister
 

in front of
the 2nd Conference in order to facilitate
the entry into force
of the Treaty of Complete Prohibition of the Tests
nuclear
 
 

New York, November 12 2001

 
 

 
Mr. President,

I have great pleasure to see you chairing the 2nd Conference in order to facilitate the entry into force of the Treaty of complete prohibition of the nuclear tests and I would like, on this occasion, to address my most cordial congratulations and all my wishes of success to you.

By designating you with this load of most demanding, it is, the obviously, the major role that your country, Mexico, plays in the field of disarmament that this Conference wanted to honour.
 

Mr. President,

The last decade of the past century was marked by the end of the cold war and the deep transfers which operated an upheaval in the international relations and contributed, at the same time, with the emergence of an atmosphere of relaxation and co-operation which has as well it even allowed the concluding of many Treaties as regards disarmament in the nuclear power fields as chemical or conventional.

These significant achievements showed that the multilateral or bilateral negotiation constituted the most suitable means in order to arrive at disarmament and to found a surer world for the future generations.

The Treaty of complete prohibition of the nuclear tests, which was the fruit the long ones and patient efforts, constitutes, from this point of view, an example to be meditated at the same time as a major contribution to the work of nuclear disarmament.

It came, indeed, to devote a new strategic thought relativizing the role of the military factors in the introduction and the safeguarding of peaces and the security international of tomorrow.

Having extended the underground nuclear tests to all the physical environments, this Treaty tends, all at the same time, to reinforce the legal arsenal having to govern the field of disarmament and the nuclear nonproliferations and to consolidate the efforts of the international Community in order to eliminate definitively and completely the nuclear threat.

 
 
Mr. President,

The Conference, to which we are invited today pursuant to the provisions contained in article 14 of the Treaty, constitutes for us an occasion of choice to engage a reflexion which we want serious and fertile on the ways and means having to allow the acceleration of his entry into force.

In this respect, the measures suggested in the declaration final and relating particularly to the need for accelerating the process of signatures and ratifications of this treaty by the States not having done it yet and on nonthe recourse to actions which can call into question its objectives, seem to us as relevant as realistic and thus deserve all our encouragements.

We estimate, however, that, for highly significant that are these measurements, the question of the entry into force of this Treaty would gain in consistency if its examination fit within the framework of a global solution which would hold account as well general political context as of other aspects and claims related to nuclear disarmament.

It is thus in particular of the elimination of the nuclear arsenals and the implementation of the initiatives and commitments entered into as regards the nuclear disarmament whose concretization delays, alas, to come.

It is, in fact, our conviction that if a generating true dynamics of a real and not decreased security engaged, the process of entry into force of the Treaty would be some facilitated and probably revitalized.

It would be it still more if the nullity of the policies based on the balance of terror and supremacy soldiers were finally recognized and if measures of confidence were actually taken.

To impel the process of entry into force of this Treaty recommends, as, as we get busy to create the conditions necessary to him while working, in particular

• to universalize the TNP and to implement its article VI;
• to explain in the facts the historical commitment undertaken by the States
  nuclear, in an unambiguous way at the time of the 6eme conference
  of examination of the TNP, to eliminate their nuclear arsenals completely;
• to revitalize the Conference of Disarmament for sets up one
  program of work allowing him to engage of the negotiations for
  making of the constraining legal instruments related to disarmament
  nuclear power and with the prevention of the arms race in space.

Mr. President,

Our adhesion with the various companies of disarmament and nuclear nonproliferations rises owing to the fact that nuclear disarmament constitutes one of our major concerns because of the threats which makes plane the existence of the nuclear weapon on international peace and the security.

It also rises from our firm conviction that the economic and social development represents today the base of one new era the collective security potentially carrying where resources, monopolized a long time by the arms race, would be exploited with the profit of the good being of humanity as a whole.

Thus and in accordance with its fundamental choices, Algeria from time immemorial privileged the development of search for a use of the nuclear techniques at exclusively peaceful ends which benefit the various spheres of socio-economic activities.

These options, which testify to our strong and effective attachment to nuclear disarmament, find, the obviously, their logical prolongation in the nearest ratification of the Treaty of prohibition of the nuclear tests, which we signed on October 15, 1996.

To conclude, I would like, indeed, to renew the will of Algeria to ratify this Treaty within short deadlines and to express, again, all the interest which it grants to the promotion and the development of the co-operation with the Organization of the Treaty.
 

I thank you