NEW YORK
Kazakhstan is alarmed by the “increased rhetoric of nuclear states,” President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said Tuesday in his address to the United Nations General Assembly.
“Kazakhstan has suffered extraordinarily beyond nuclear weapons testing, so obviously we risk an escalation of tensions between nuclear powers,” Tokayev said.
“For this reason, nuclear disarmament has a key detail in Kazakhstan’s foreign policy and we will continuously strive for a world without nuclear arsenals. “
He said there has been “some progress in this area” but “the overall picture is very positive. “
“We are also concerned about the lack of progress achieved through the NPT Review Conferences,” Tokayev added, referring to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
He warned that the world has “entered a new era of bitter geopolitical confrontation. “
“The old foreign formula about order and duty is giving way to a new, more chaotic and unpredictable one,” he said.
“Mutual distrust between global powers is deepening dangerously. The world is in the grip of a new circular of military conflicts. For the first time in two generations, we are faced with the prospect of the use of nuclear weapons, and even as the ultimate complex.