Kazakh Leader offers again to set up UN Peacekeeping Fund

W YORK. September 21. KAZINFORM /Muratbek Makulbekov/ President of Kazakhstan has again proposed to set up a United Nations Peacekeeping Fund.

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"The new world order "maturing" is accompanied by the growth of conflicts. Today the world's total military spending grows twice as fast as during the Cold War - by 6 per cent a year. It has already made 1.5 trillion U.S. dollars.

"In this connection my initiative to establish a United Nations Peacekeeping Fund, which I voiced for the first time nineteen years ago, has become even more pressing," the President added.