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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 17. Juli 2006 / Time Line July 17, 2006
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Andorra ratifies Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
http://www.ctbto.org/press_centre/press_release.dhtml?item=277
PI/2006/09:Andorra has deposited its instrument of ratification of
the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) with the United
Nations Secretary-General on 12 July 2006, bringing the total
number of ratifications to 134. The number of ratifying States in
the North America and Western Europe geographical region now stands
at 27.
The CTBT bans any nuclear weapons test explosion or any other
nuclear explosion. Drafted at the Conference on Disarmament in
Geneva and adopted by the General Assembly on 10 September 1996,
the Treaty was opened for signature on 24 September 1996 at the
United Nations headquarters in New York.
To enter into force, the CTBT must be signed and ratified by the 44
States listed in Annex 2 to the Treaty. These States formally
participated in the work of the 1996 session of the Conference on
Disarmament and possessed nuclear power or research reactors at
that time. To date, 34 of the Annex 2 States have ratified the
Treaty.
Armenia ratifies Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
http://www.ctbto.org/press_centre/press_release.dhtml?item=278
PI/2006/08:Armenia has deposited its instrument of ratification of
the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) with the United
Nations Secretary-General on 12 July 2006, bringing the total
number of ratifications to 133. The number of ratifying States in
the Eastern Europe geographical region now stands at 20.
Armenia hosts one International Monitoring System (IMS) facility,
an auxiliary seismic station at Garni. The station forms part of
the global network of 337 IMS monitoring facilities which is being
established under the terms of the CTBT to verify compliance with
the terms of the Treaty. The monitoring facilities transmit data
via satellite to the International Data Centre (IDC) in Vienna,
where the data are used to detect, locate and characterize events.
These data and IDC products are made available to the States
Signatories for final analysis.
07/17/2006
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
Arrowhead Global Solutions, Inc., Falls Church, Va., Global
Communications Solutions, Inc., Victor, N.Y., Globecomm Systems,
Inc., Hauppauge, NY, SWE-DISH Satellite Systems, Reston, Va., Tampa
Microwave Lab, Inc., Tampa, Fla., Telecommunication Systems, Inc.,
Annapolis, Md., United Electronics Corp., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. and
Limco-Airepair, Inc., Tulsa, Okla., are being awarded an
indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contract for
portable satellite communications (SATCOM) terminals. Each
contractor will be awarded a minimum guarantee per lot awarded to
the offeror. These contracts include a one-year base period and
four one-year option periods, making the total potential period of
performance five years. When combined, the aggregate value of all
delivery orders awarded over the life of these eight contracts will
be approximately $52,600,000. These eight contractors may compete
for the delivery orders under the terms and conditions of the
awarded contract. Work is expected to be completed July 2007 and if
all options are exercised, ordering equipment could continue until
July 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current
fiscal year. The multiple award contracts were competitively
procured by a small business set aside procurement via the SPAWAR
business opportunity page, e-commerce central web site, and federal
business opportunities site, with nine offers received. The Space
and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Charleston, S.C., is the
contracting activity (N65236-06-D-8142, 8143, 8144, 8145, 8146,
8147, 8148 and 8149).
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