The meeting focused on Croatia's current and future activities to be undertaken in cooperation with the CTBTO Secretariat, Grabar Kitarovic said.
Croatia has ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and advocates its prompt entry into force. The Treaty was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1996 and it has not gone into force yet because it has not been ratified by ten countries which have nuclear units on their territory, including the USA, Iran, Israel and North Korea, which has not signed the Treaty.
In July Croatia hosted a successful field exercise on the emergency establishment of a test centre in case of nuclear tests in cooperation with the CTBTO, Grabar Kitarovic said. She added that work was under way to establish a national centre in Croatia that would receive data from the international data centre in Vienna, to be used in scientific research, weather forecasting, the forecasting of earthquakes and tsunamis, information of temperature, global warming, etc.