Friday, 21 August 2009OIC Secretary General on August 20 addressed all Muslim member countries of the organization with the request to support the initiative of the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, to declare on August 29 International Day of Refusal from Nuclear Weapons, Kazakhstan Today agency reports citing the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan.
"The history of independent Kazakhstan is inseparably linked with nuclear disarmament. At the beginning of its independence, August, 1991, the President of Kazakhstan, N. Nazarbayev, signed the decree on closing Semipalatinsk nuclear range. On September 8, 2006, in Semipalatinsk, the Central Asian states in close cooperation with the United Nations signed the contract on creation of the zone free from nuclear weapons in the Central Asian region.
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Friday, 21 August 2009
Gazeta.kz
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