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nuclear weapons free world
step by step.

I express hope that this
conference will make an
important contribution to the
cause of non-proliferation
and reduction of nuclear
weapons. Only by working
together we can make our
world safer and better.
I wish you all fruitful work
and further success in your
noble activity!
Nursultan Nazarbayev

I sincerely associate myself
with the wishes of our
President and would like to
express my confidence that
concerted active efforts of
all participants of the global
nonproliferation process
year by year will bring us
closer to a nuclear weapons
free world.

I thank you for your
attention.

a presidential decree closing crucially important. During Washington, DC, where I
the Semipalatinsk test site. the four decades, 490 proposed to develop a new
Kazakhstan
voluntarily nuclear explosions had been universal Treaty on compre-
renounced the world's fourth conducted on Kazakhstan's hensive horizontal and verti-
largest nuclear arsenal. It soil, causing suffering to cal non-proliferation of
was the first time in the more than one and a half nuclear weapons, to settle
world history when a million people, with the gra- the legal status of nuclear
nuclear test site was closed vest damage done to vast weapons free zones, and to
according to the people's areas of our country. The create an international
will. The people of memory of the sacrifices, nuclear fuel bank as well as
Kazakhstan, by their own made by our people, gives a nuclear security education
example, have shown the us a historical and moral center.
world the way to a safer right to act as one of the lea-
future. ders of the global anti- On the eve of the
It is gratifying that in nuclear movement. International Day against
December 2009, at Nuclear Tests, marked by
Kazakhstan's initiative, the It is symbolic that the the international community
United Nations declared the Central Asian Nuclear for the first time ever, we
day of the closing of the test Weapons Free Zone Treaty hope for the deepening of
site as the International Day was signed in 2006 in broad international coopera-
against Nuclear Tests. I am Semipalatinsk. The closing tion aimed at saving the
grateful to all those who of the Semipalatinsk test site world from the nuclear
have shared our vision of a and the establishment of a threat. We are bound to do
nuclear weapons free world nuclear weapons free zone that by the responsibility
and have supported the reso- serve as a bright symbol of before future generations. It
lution. hope that achieving a is important already today to
nuclear weapons free world start drafting a Universal
For the people of is possible. Declaration of a Nuclear
Kazakhstan, who experien- Weapons Free World which
ced the horrors of nuclear An important step in reali- would enshrine the commit-
tests first-hand, the issue of zing the idea of a nuclear ment of all states to move
a comprehensive test ban is weapons free world was the towards the ideal of a
Nuclear Security Summit in
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