Kazakhstan offers to adopt declaration of nuclear-free world: pres.

ASTANA, October 12 (Itar-Tass) - Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev
once again offered on Wednesday to adopt as soon as possible a Universal
Declaration of a Nuclear-Free World.
The president was speaking at the international forum For a
Nuclear-Free World, devoted to the 20th anniversary of the closure of the
biggest in the Soviet Union Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in the east of
the republic.
He said he had already voiced this idea at the 66th session of the
U.N. General Assembly. That was a logical step for Kazakhstan, which 20
years ago challenged "the nuclear Moloch," he stressed.
According to Nazarbayev, it "will not be easy today" to adopt such a
declaration. "States don't want to get rid of nuclear weapons. It seems to
them that they can't do without it. Some think that this restrains, others
wave this bludgeon in front of the whole world, intimidating others," he
said.
"We must raise the peoples of the world in order to get rid of that
future apocalypses for the humankind," he stressed. Nazarbayev believes
"an integral system of global nuclear security under a tough control of
the United Nations," which will be vested for that "with exclusive
authorities and control" is necessary.
"The road to a nuclear free world is impossible without the joining of
efforts of all sober-minded people on the planet, without a global
participation," he stressed.
He believes an influential "powerful global anti-nuclear movement"
must be created nowadays. "It would be important to state this at the
forum and begin organizing it on all continents of the planet," Nazarbayev
said.
"Its main aim is not only fight against a nuclear threat. It is
important to insistently form a nuclear-free sense of the humankind, as an
absolute rejection of any forms of nuclear weapons," Nazarbayev believes.
He stressed that for him, the president of the country that was the
first to close a nuclear test site, "a nuclear-free world is an absolute
political axiom".