Some 160 signatory nations to a 1996 treaty banning nuclear tests will hold ministerial-level talks at the end of September in New York to accelerate efforts toward ratification.
Foreign Ministry sources said Thursday the three-day meeting will open at the United Nations headquarters on Sept. 25, one day after the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty by the U.N. General Assembly.
The sources said the schedule for the meeting was agreed on recently through informal consultations between Japan, a number of other key countries and the U.N. secretariat.
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