Real security can be ensured through broad cooperation -Nazarbayev.

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ASTANA, June 25 (Itar-Tass) - Real security can be ensured only
through broad and constructive cooperation on the basis on the
international law and the creation of regional security architectures,
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said in his address to participants
in the third Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council Security Forum.
Foreign Minister Marat Tazhin read out the president's address at the
Forum's plenary meeting that opened in Astana on Thursday.
"Kazakhstan takes efforts to create a global movement for
denuclearised world," Nazarbayev said reiterating his recent initiative to
proclaim August 29 the World Day of Refusal from Nuclear Weapons of Mass
Destruction. "We are ready to submit this proposal for the UN's
consideration."
The EAPC forum will discuss security in the Caucasus and Central Asia,
the situation in Afghanistan as well as the problems of energy security.
The forum brought together delegates from 50 member-states of the EAPC,
NATO and international organizations.
Kazakhstan's cooperation with NATO began in 1992, when the republic
joined the North Atlantic Cooperation Council that in five years was
transformed into the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council. In 1994 the
republic joined NATO's Partnership for Peace Program. At present,
Kazakhstan is the only country in Central Asia, with which NATO is
building relations within the framework of the Individual Partnership
Action Plan.
Kazakhstan trains its peacekeeping unit Kazbat in compliance with the
NATO standards and personnel for participation in international rescue and
humanitarian operations under the aegis of NATO and the UN.
The previous forums of the EAPC were held in Sweden in 2005 and in
Macedonia in 2007.

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