Increasing pressure on the nine CTBT hold-outs at the United Nations
168 coutries vote for The vote on the CTBT resolution on 28 October was an expression of the overwhelming support the Treaty enjoys: it was adopted with 168 votes, with one against (United States) and 3 abstentions (India, Mauritius, Syria).

The United Nations General Assembly in its 63rd session in 2008. Source: UN Photo/Marco Castro
Nine states missing for the CTBT's entry into force
Political momentum in the United States
"...I will work with the Senate to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and then seek its earliest possible entry into force,"
[I would] "take another look at the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty..."
The CTBT resolution
UN Secretary-General Ban calls for entry into force of the CTBT

(from left to right): Mohamed El-Baradei, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency; Sergey Kislyak, Russian Federation Ambassador to the United States of America; United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; and Henry Alfred Kissinger, former United States Secretary of State and Chairman of Kissinger Associates. Source: UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras
Reference to the CTBT in other Resolutions
30 Oct 2008