Japan to submit new disarmament resolution to U.N.

TOKYO, Aug. 1 Kyodo - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori said Tuesday he plans to submit a new resolution on nuclear disarmament when he attends the U.N. Millennium Summit in New York next month.

''Resolutions on eliminating nuclear weapons we have sponsored so far have...played a historic role,'' the premier told a plenary session of the House of Councillors. ''We will continue to play an active role in this field.''

According to Foreign Ministry officials, the new resolution will call for the entry into force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) on nuclear weapons, and a ban on all nuclear tests until that time.

Japan has submitted resolutions calling for the abolition of nuclear arms to the U.N. General Assembly every year, but the new resolution will aim at issuing a stronger message, the officials said.

The CTBT, adopted by the General Assembly in 1996, has yet to come into effect because not all the countries that are required to ratify it have done so.
==Kyodo

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