International Day against Nuclear Tests to be marked at Capitol Hill
08:52, 8 September 2011
SHINGTON, DC. September 8. 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-hosts a roundtable discussion at the U.S. Capitol's Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C. today, September 8, 2011.
The event, entitled "Two Decades Without Nuclear Weapons Testing," which the Embassy is co-hosting with environmental group Global Green USA, will convene experts and officials from the U.S. and Kazakhstan 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, the press service of the Kazakh Embassy to the US reports.