Kazakhstan to suggest declaring Aug 29 World Day of refusal from nuclear weapons
16:46, 18 June 2009
SEMEY. June 18. KAZINFORM /Yernur Akanbay / - Kazakhstan will address the UN with a suggestion to announce August 29th (the day when the Semipalatinsk nuclear testing site was closed) the World Day of Refusal from Nuclear Weapons of Mass Destruction. President Nursultan Nazabayev informed of this decision today during the working visit to Semey on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of cancellation of nuclear testing.
«We, Kazakhstanis, wish to initiate the declaration of August 29th ? the day when in 1991 by my Decree the largest nuclear testing site was closed forever ? as the World Day of refusal from the nuclear weapons», - President Nazarbayev emphasized in his speech.
«We are hoping that the example of creation of the zones free of nuclear weapons in Central Asia, Latin America, Africa and South-East Asia, will be responded in other parts of the world», - the President appealed.
The united efforts will move the world community forward towards creation of the non-nuclear world, according to the President. «I believe that the next ten years will be a constructive period for the entire world. These years will show if we can get rid of the deathly nuclear sword forever, or whether it will keep on threatening the mankind. Therefore we must start immediate search for the new ways of nuclear nonproliferation», - Nursultan Nazarbayev stated.