Thailand endorses Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

[rooster59]

Thailand endorses Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

Tanakorn Sangiam

 

BANGKOK, 18 May 2018 (NNT) – The National Legislative Assembly (NLA) endorsed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and approved the Act for the Protection of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization's operations. 

The NLA discussed the endorsement of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), and the protection of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization's (CTBTO) operations as proposed by the Cabinet. 

Science and Technology Minister Suvit Maesincee said Thailand has become a signatory of the CTBT aiming to ban all types of nuclear weapon tests since 12 November 1996, joining other 183 signatories and 166 ratifiers. However, Thailand has since then yet to ratify the treaty. 

The CTBT is yet to be in force, and is managed by the CTBTO which is an international organization managing the policies and operations. 

The science minister said Thailand will benefit from the CTBT by having a better stance at international level in nuclear weapons ban, as it has been performed extraordinarily in the ASEAN region, while the ratification of the CTBT will help the country having better cooperations with fellow ratifiers, which will result in technological trainings for Thai officials on this matter, including disaster responses. 

Ratification of CTBT will also support the roles of the Office of the Auditor General, who will act as an external auditor in 2018-2019 term. 

NLA members discussed the benefits of this law which will aid technological imports and adaptation in Thailand, and approved the law in the first phase with 178 yes votes, leading to the establishment of a 18-member committee in seven days to propose the amendment under the 60-day timeframe.

 

 

-- nnt 2018-05-19

[KiwiKiwi]

 

Does anyone care or is it just some muppets looking for a bit of relevance on the world stage?

[DrTuner]

It's fairly easy to ban something you have no talent to do anyway.

[tso310]

Sleeping easier already.

[unblocktheplanet]

'Bout time! Thailand may be surprised to learn there's a new UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. 58 countries have already signed, 10 of them ratified.

 

Of course, the big bullies of the world haven't signed.

[RichardColeman]

Yeah, but up next they will probably build a Nuclear reactor in the wild Muslim region !

3 hours ago, tso310 said:

Sleeping easier already.

 

[Eligius]

5 hours ago, DrTuner said:

It's fairly easy to ban something you have no talent to do anyway.

DrTuner, DrTuner: didn't you know that it was Thais who invented the atom bomb?! The Manhattan Project stole all their data from Thailand. Thought you would have known that!

[uffe123]

Is this a joke? Thailand has-bombs?

[Srikcir]

9 hours ago, rooster59 said:

the ratification of the CTBT will help the country having better cooperations with fellow ratifiers

When Thailand has nuclear electrical generation ambitions, the ratification will help advance international assistance. While its PDP2015 Energy Plan (Table A5) only anticipates 1,000MW nuclear power in 2035 and 2,000MW in 2036, cost of fossil fuels might accelerate that timetable. 

[blackcab]

An off topic post has been removed.

[KiwiKiwi]

13 hours ago, uffe123 said:

Is this a joke? Thailand has-bombs?

No, and we should all hope and pray they never get one. Grandstanding on the world stage to imply they've really been thinking seriously about something is allowed though. Thais are good at that.

 

So far as I'm aware, the Thai nuclear facility consists of a research unit the size of a shoebox. They even managed to frack that up niceley a few years back, when the (slightly) radioactive source went missing. National alert. They found one of the technicians wandering around Samut Prakan with it in his pocket or something. Forgot he had it apparently.

 

Don't know how true any of that is, gossip only but I believe it is based on fact at least. Some kind TV poster will be able set us all straight I'm sure.

[stanleycoin]

14 hours ago, Eligius said:

DrTuner, DrTuner: didn't you know that it was Thais who invented the atom bomb?! The Manhattan Project stole all their data from Thailand. Thought you would have known that!

This has been common knowledge for donkeys years. 

[KiwiKiwi]

1 hour ago, stanleycoin said:

This has been common knowledge for donkeys years. 

 

Only inside of Thailand though, people outside Thailand know Thailand very well and rightly take no notice of the posturing and lies.