At the signing ceremony in Oslo, Britain's foreign secretary, David Miliband, said the treaty set a new global norm.

在签署仪式上，英国外长大卫米利班德说这项协议建立起了新的国际标准。

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U.S. negotiators might have been able to hold out for elimination of such dangerous ambiguity, but they were under pressure to produce a treaty in time for a United Nations signing ceremony before the 1996 election.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | Politics and the Test Ban Treaty, By George F. Will, Newsweek, 20 October 1999