ACS PARTNERS WITH CTBTO IN ENSURING A SAFER WORLD

PORT OF SPAIN (03.08.2005) – March 7, 2005, was no ordinary day, at least for the Secretary General of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), Dr. Rubén Silié Valdez and the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban-Treaty Organization (CTBTO), Dr. Wolfgang Hoffmann, who signed a joint cooperation agreement at the ACS headquarters that morning.

For the ACS Secretary General, the day marked “the culmination of a joint effort formalising a co-operation relationship with an Organization with which we have been working over the last few years.”

This relationship began in the year 2002 when representatives of the CTBTO made a presentation to the ACS Special Committee on Natural Disasters on nuclear disarmament, awakening the interest of Member States because the monitoring systems set up globally by the CTBTO could assist in the early detection and prevention of natural disasters.

As Dr. Hoffmann explained, the CTBTO works primarily to prevent nuclear disasters brought about by test explosions but also aims to reduce the effect of natural disasters by warning people before catastrophes strike.

It is in their joint aspiration to make the world a safer place that the ACS and CTBTO have found synergies in their work, and in signing the agreement that each can lend greater support to the other in furthering the organizations’ work of ensuring mankind’s safety.

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