SENEGAL

SHORT SPEECH OF

S.E. MR. SHEIK TIDIANE GADIO,
FOREIGN MINISTER,
AFRICAN UNION AND
SENEGALAIS OF THE EXTERIEUR,

WITH THE CONFERENCE
OF FACILITATION OF THE ENTREE IN FORCE
DRAFT OF PROHIBITION COMPLETE
NUCLEAR TESTS

New York, November 12 2001

subject to modifications

 
 

Mr. President,

The opening to the signature, September 10, 1996, of the Treaty of complete prohibition of the nuclear tests, undoubtedly, constituted a significant stake towards an efficient system of collective security.

Like such, it had been favorably accomodated by the international Community which saw a sure means there to reduce the nuclear proliferation.

Force is, however, to note that the hopes placed in this major legal instrument were opposed by the time taken for its entry into force.

For a great part, this situation rises from the absence of political will ascribable to an inertia as for measurements of confidence which must be taken by all the protagonists of the Treaty.

In particular, it is advisable to insist on the Countries listed in its appendix II and whose adhesion is necessary so that the mechanism of international monitoring envisaged for this purpose can be operational.
 

Mr. President,

You will have noticed that among the Countries quoted on this appendix relevant, appear of the States equipped with nuclear weapons which did not show the will yet to be bound by the provisions of the treaty prohibiting the nuclear tests.

From the point of view of my Country, this situation is alarming because it can be interprêtée only in one ambivalent attitude on such a delicate question and which rather controls the good faith and mutual confidence.

The good faith, you know it, Mr. President, is the cardinal virtue of the Duty. It is the base on which rests a system of international relations durable and reliable.

Admittedly, we must be pleased with what Bilateral agreements and unilateral measurements were at the base of a strong reduction of the vectors and nuclear explosives during ten last years. Senegal is however convinced that the Countries equipped with nuclear weapons and those which have the capacity of it must preach for the example by supporting the multilateral legal instruments designed to ensure nuclear disarmament.

While conforming to it, these States give serious pledges and, by the same occasion, alleviate the Countries which could have been tried by the nonsense of the nuclear option.

**time-out** but, if the State equip of weapon nuclear and those which have the capacity to himself of get have a responsibility particular in the entry into force en.vigueur of Treaty prohibit the test nuclear, it be advisable also to recall that all the other Country have a equal obligation to it promote.

Senegal belongs to circles of regional solidarity and transrégionale which rejects the nuclear military option. **time-out** the Movement of Not-Align which of be the more broad, have engage, at the time of its twelfth Node, belong to 29 August with 3 September 1998 with Durban, the Conference of Disarmament to make take the measurement idoines for the adoption of a program of disarmament nuclear.

The OAU, under the aegis of which was adopted the Treaty of making Pelindaba of Africa a nuclear-weapon-free zone, has just set up a African Commission of atomic Energy.

It have to be wished that in addition to INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, this new structure can maintain the institutional links with the O.T.I.C.E and thus form, a network of multilateral institutions of promotion of the civil nuclear power and therefore, Development.

This common perception that Senegal shares with the majority of the Countries of the South makes only consolidate our Ab.initio engagement against the nuclear proliferation.

Part with the Treaty of non-proliferation, my Country signed and ratified the Treaty of complete prohibition of the nuclear tests. As far as possible, it collaborates in good faith with the Provisional Technical Secretary of the Organization of the Treaty of complete prohibition of the nuclear tests.

We took the measurement of the importance of the international System of monitoring of the Treaty and are negotiating the establishment, in Senegal, of one station?relais of this grid on a worldwide scale.

Looking further into this co-operation of quality with the Provisional Technical Secretariat of the OTICE, we agreed to organize from the 13 to current 15 November, in Dakar, a Seminar of sensitizing on the Treaty and to which will take share twenty seven Countries of central and Western Africa.

The highest Authorities of Senegal seized this occasion besides to invite Mr. Wolfgang HOFFMANN to pay an official visit in Dakar and will pay to him a homage supported for its last action and presents, respectively with the Conference Disarmament and the head of the Secretariat of the Organization.

It is you to say, Mr. President, that Senegal attaches price to the entry into force of the TICS and exhorte all the Countries to be signed, to ratify and, if necessary, to adhere to it.

A surer world depends on this substantial formality.
 

I thank you.