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Press Opportunities During Visit to Australia & New Zealand by Head of Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization


VIENNA, November 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --

The final station in a network of 21 Australian nuclear test monitoring facilities, "IS03", at Davis Base, Antarctica, was recently certified. To mark capping a 20 year programme, there will be a commemorative event at Geoscience Australia, attended by Lassina Zerbo, Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO).  

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During his visit to Australia from 19-21 November 2018, Zerbo will also meet Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne and other high-level officials in Canberra. He will also brief heads of missions for South Pacific countries at a CTBTO workshop in Melbourne, hosted at the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency on the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) and its verification system and its civil and scientific applications.

During his visit to New Zealand from 22-23 November 2018, Zerbo will meet with high-level officials and scientific experts in Wellington and Christchurch, and visit the "Red Zone", an area of the city centre that had been cordoned off following the February 2011 earthquake that caused widespread damage across Christchurch.

Press opportunities include:

Zerbo can speak on issues related to nuclear testing and nuclear non-proliferation, North Korea's six announced nuclear tests that were detected by the CTBT International Monitoring System (IMS), completion of Australia's segment of the global monitoring system to detect nuclear tests, and the civil and scientific uses of IMS data for public safety and the advance of science.

In Canberra, Zerbo will also deliver the John Gee Memorial Lecture at the Australian National University (ANU), with opening remarks from ANU Chancellor and Former Foreign Minister Gareth Evans.

When: 20 November at 17:30

Where: Lecture Theatre 1, Hedley Bull Building (130), corner of Garran Road and Liversidge Street, ANU. Full details: https://bit.ly/2B17c8R

When: Thursday 22 November 2018, at 17:30.

Where: RHLT1 Rutherford House, Victoria University, 23 Lambton Quay, Wellington.

Full details: https://bit.ly/2zK8OSq

Background  

The CTBT bans all nuclear explosions everywhere, by everyone, and for all times. The CTBTO has established an International Monitoring System to ensure that no nuclear explosion goes undetected. Currently, 296 certified facilities - of a total of 337 when complete - are operating around the world. The data registered by the IMS can also be used for disaster mitigation such as earthquake monitoring, tsunami warning, and the tracking of the levels and dispersal of radioactivity from nuclear accidents.

TV B-roll and still photos are available

Watch analyst describe working at CTBTO when North Korea detonated a nuclear bomb:  https://bit.ly/2TbBBIq

Map of Australian monitoring facilities: https://bit.ly/2DqoVc7

Map of global monitoring network: https://bit.ly/2RKaR0h 

http://www.ctbto.org  

SOURCE the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test- Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)


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