Kazakhstan's historic role in nuclear non-proliferation debated in Geneva

The event, organized on August 29 by the Permanent Mission of Kazakhstan jointly with the Fund for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons brought together representatives of international organizations, diplomatic corps, NGOs, academic circle and media.

Addressing those attending Director General of the UN Office at Geneva Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev noted, the UN highly appreciates contribution of Kazakhstan and its Leader Nursultan Nazarbayev to nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation by abandoning the world's fourth nuclear arsenal and shutting the Semipalatinsk nuclear testing site down. He drew attention to Conference on Disarmament, the only multilateral forum to negotiate disarmament agreements, urging the countries which have not yet done so to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and take measures for its sooner entry into legal force.