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Rising from the scars of its nuclear past to push for a better world

“I am at ground zero. In 1967, 67 years ago, a 22-kiloton atomic bomb exploded at this nuclear test site where I am now standing. There would be 455 more explosions, each one more powerful and deadly than the last as the Cold War raged between the United States and the Soviet Union.” Read more

Kazakhstan Calls for Nuclear Disarmament at International Conference

“The process of reducing nuclear arsenals should be done multilaterally, with the participation of all states that have that kind of military power,” the Kazakh president said during an international conference in Astana. Read more

Kazakhstan Leads the Way to a Nuclear-Weapon Free World

As divisions between States on how to achieve nuclear disarmament grow, countries like Kazakhstan must lead the way to common ground and inclusive dialogue. Such leadership is urgently needed to make our world truly secure, said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a message delivered to the conference on ‘Building a Nuclear-Weapon Free World. Read more

Marshall Islands speaker urges disarmament during visit to Kazakhstan test site

The people of Kazakhstan and the people of the Marshall Islands are linked by the fact that they both became nuclear test targets of global powers, Kenneth Kedi said Sunday on a visit to the country. Read more

Nazarbayev Calls Other Countries to Follow Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Disarmament Model

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev participated in Building a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World, an int’l conference held Aug. 29 in the capital’s Palace of Independence, where he highlighted Kazakhstan’s achievements and efforts in nuclear disarmament, urged other countries to follow and announced the Astana Peace Summit, which will take place in November. Read more

Anti-Nuclear Weapons Leaders Adopt “Astana Vision Declaration” at Int’l Conference in Astana

A wide array of issues, including nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament and the physical protection of nuclear weapons were discussed at the Aug. 29 international conference Building a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World at the Palace of Independence in Astana. THe conference also adopted The Astana Vision Declaration “From a Radioactive Haze to a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World”. Read more

25 Years Later, Kazakhstan Grapples With Effects of Nuclear Tests

Local residents near the notorious Semipalatinsk testing ground say radiation has left a deadly toll of disease. Read more

OSCE PA vice president talks about regional security

The main tasks of the international community are to prevent the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and means of their delivery and ensure appropriate internal control over them, Azay Guliyev, vice president of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA), said. Read more

Our commitment to getting rid of nuclear arms still firm, MSP Bill Kidd to tell international conference

Bill Kidd, co-president of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND), will speak at that organisation’s Building a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, and will highlight to delegates what he calls Prime Minister Theresa May’s “absolutely chilling” response of ‘yes’ to the question about whether she would use nuclear weapons. Read more

Participants of Int’l Conference in Kazakhstan Denounce N. Korea’s Nuke Tests

Through the “Astana Vision”, participants denounced North Korea’s continued nuclear tests and expressed concerns about the continuous modernization of nuclear arms by countries that possess nuclear weapons. Read more

Participants of Int’l Conference in Kazakhstan Denounce N. Korea’s Nuke Tests

Through the “Astana Vision”, participants denounced North Korea’s continued nuclear tests and expressed concerns about the continuous modernization of nuclear arms by countries that possess nuclear weapons. Read more

India’s participation in global nuke weapons free conference in Kazakhstan significant, says envoy

India’s participation in a day-long international conference being held in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Monday on the theme “Building a nuclear-weapon-free world”, has been declared as significant by that country’s envoy to New Delhi, Bulat Sarsenbayev. Read more

India’s participation in global nuke weapons free conference in Kazakhstan significant, says envoy

India’s participation in a day-long international conference being held in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Monday on the theme “Building a nuclear-weapon-free world”, has been declared as significant by that country’s envoy to New Delhi, Bulat Sarsenbayev. Read more

Kazakhstan – 25 years of building the model of a nuclear weapon-free state

The closing of the nuclear test site and Kazakhstan’s voluntary renunciation of the fourth largest nuclear weapons arsenal in the world ins considered a profound contribution to the global nuclear disarmament process. Read more

US Rep: We appreciate the people of Kazakhstan for their commitment to nuclear disarmament

U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, chairman of the House Subcommittee on International Affairs of Europe, Eurasia and the new threats, issued a statement about the conference, scheduled for next week in Kazakhstan and dedicated to “building a world free of nuclear weapons,” BNews.kz reports. Read more