United Nations General Assembly:       6th Committee (Legal)

In the annals of nuclear diplomacy, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) stands as both an achievement and an enigma. A treaty celebrated for its noble aspirations yet still

shackled by its own incompletion. Opened for signature in 1996, the CTBT promised a world free of nuclear test explosions. And yet, a quarter of a century later, its fate hangs in suspension:

not in force, not abandoned, but existing in a limbo of lofty intent and limited enforcement.

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Today, the General Assembly’s Legal Committee is summoned to confront this paradox. The questions before you are formidable: How do we reconcile the urgent imperative of nuclear

non-proliferation with the legal ambiguities that have plagued the CTBT’s entry into force?

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Should the Treaty be amended to reflect new verification technologies, shifting geopolitical realities, and the need for universal adherence? Or would reopening its text risk unraveling the fragile consensus so arduously built?

Here, in the crucible of international law, you represent not merely states but the collective conscience of humanity. The task is to deliberate with both intellectual rigour and diplomatic dexterity on how best to breathe life into a treaty whose promise of a safer world remains unfulfilled.

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We welcome you to the GA Legal Committee, where law and diplomacy converge.