JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel supports a treaty to ban nuclear testing but signaled his country was not yet ready to ratify a UN pact adopted by the UN nearly 20 years ago.

Netanyahu's office issued a statement on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty after he met Lassina Zerbo, the head of the Vienna-based organization which oversees it.

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