Sri Lanka Nuclear Test Ban Treaty field event to be postponed
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- January 7, 2025
- Political
- Sri Lanka Nuclear Test Ban Treaty field event to be postponed
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Sri Lanka has held a prepatory meeting for an Integrated Field Exercise under the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Defence Ministry said, though the international body in charge and the Foreign Minister said the event had been postponed.
Sri Lanka announced in 2023 that it had ratified the agreement the country signed in 1996. Soon after signing the agreement a in 1996, an auxiliary seismic station was set up in Pallekele, Kandy.
Work under the treaty including on-site inspection (OSI) events are carried out by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, headquartered in Europe.
After ratification Sri Lanka’s Geological Survey and Mines Bureau (GSMB) had submitted a bid to the CTBTO to host a six-week Integrated Field Exercise 2025 (IFE 2025) in about a 1000 square kilometres land area in the Eastern Province, officials said.
