Kazakh president seeks tougher control over nuclear countries

ASTANA, October 12 (Itar-Tass) - Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev
favours a tougher approach in ensuring control over the countries
possessing nuclear weapons.
The president also said on Wednesday that the "importance of the
regional dimension of nuclear security" had grown manifold. At the same
time, "there are no efficient systems of international control over a
nuclear arms race in South Asia, in the Middle East," he said at the
international forum For a Nuclear-Free World. The forum is timed to the
20th anniversary of the closure of the biggest in the Soviet Union
Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in the east of the republic.
"We witness a confrontation of certain nuclear states and 'threshold'
countries," Nazarbayev stressed. According to him, this situation
"creates a serious threat of nuclear technologies and materials getting
into the hands of international terrorists".
Nazarbayev stressed that at the present moment "a stalemate situation"
exists around the nuclear-test-ban treaty. "It cannot come into effect
because the process of signing and ratification is stalled by some nuclear
and threshold countries," he said.
The Kazakh leader stressed that not all countries of the "nuclear
club" participate in the global process of nuclear disarmament. "Nuclear
states don't give guarantees of security to countries that don't possess
nuclear weapons. This can result in the proliferation of nuclear weapons
to volatile regions of the world," the Kazakh president added.
So far, "our possibility to not to possess and not to test not does
not work," the president regretted.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev once again offered on Wednesday
to adopt as soon as possible a Universal Declaration of a Nuclear-Free
World.
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.
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