U.S. Promotes Plan for U.N. Security Council Resolution on Nuclear Testing

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A senior U.S. State Department official on Monday touted the benefits of President Barack Obama’s plan for a U.N.rnSecurity Council resolution against nuclear testing.rnWith the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty still not entered into force, "we call on all states to maintain thernmoratoria on nuclear explosive tests. Sustaining these moratoria is in the national security interest of the United States,rnas well as that of the entire world," Anita Friedt, principal deputy assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of ArmsrnControl, Verification and Compliance, said in a speech to a nuclear disarmament conference in Astana, Kazakhstan.