International Day against Nuclear Tests marked at Capitol Hill
SHINGTON, DC. September 10. KAZINFORM In celebration of August 29, 2011 being International Day against Nuclear Tests and the 20th Anniversary of the closure of the Soviet nuclear site at Semipalatinsk, the Embassy of Kazakhstan to the United States co-hosted a roundtable discussion at the U.S. Capitol's Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C. on September 8.
The event, entitled "Two Decades Without Nuclear Weapons Testing," which the Embassy co-hosted with environmental group Global Green USA, brought experts and officials from the U.S. and Kazakhstan together to discuss the historic Semipalatinsk closure two decades ago, (which the U.N. day was declared to commemorate), the horrific impact that testing has on nearby populations and our environment and the prospects of halting all nuclear testing worldwide through Senate ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in the near future.
Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the United States Yerlan Idrissov, Director, Security & Sustainability, Global Green USA Dr Paul Walker took the floor, the press service of the Kazakh Embassy to the United States reports.