The treaty was signed on 8 September 2006. It was ratified by the five Central Asian States and entered into force on 21 March 2009. In September 2014, the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) followed a statement “On the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia”, in which it urged the five nuclear-weapon States to complete ratification of the applicable protocol as soon as possible.
Currently, all the countries of the five nuclear countries, with the exception of the United States, have ratified the Protocol. In 2009, the UN General Assembly unanimously accepted a solution presented through Kazakhstan proclaiming August 29, the day in 1991 when Kazakhstan’s first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, signed a decree on the closure of the Semipalatinsk site, as the “International Day Against Nuclear Tests. “
In 2012, activists in Kazakhstan introduced ATOM (Abolish Testing. Our Mission), a crusade of defense and education abroad aimed at galvanizing world public opinion that opposes nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons, kazakhstan’s embassy in India said.
On August 27, 2015, Kazakhstan and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) signed an agreement to identify a low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel bank in the country to supply the world with a guarantee of fuel for civilian nuclear power.
In 2015-2017, Kazakhstan and Japan co-chaired the Conference under article XIV of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, to bring closer the entry into force of this vital foreign tool.
In addition, in December 2015, the United Nations General Assembly followed for the first time the Universal Declaration on the Realization of a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World proposed through Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan played a role in the good fortune of the Iran nuclear deal in 2015 by hosting two rounds of negotiations between Iran and the P5-1 in 2013, in addition to being directly involved in the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Following the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, Kazakhstan and the United States of America showed their shared commitment to putting in place practical measures for the nuclear non-proliferation regime and improving nuclear safety.
In October 2016, Nursultan Nazarbayev announced the award of a new award: the Nazarbayev Prize for a world without nuclear weapons and global security.
During its non-permanent UN Security Council club in 2017-2018, Kazakhstan promoted nuclear safety globally and suggested to all member states that they set the purpose of ridding the world of nuclear weapons during the UN’s centenary in 2045, the embassy added. .
In 2019, Kazakhstan ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the first legally binding multilateral agreement for their development, testing, stockpiling and use. The Treaty entered into force in January 2021 and June 2022. Kazakhstan has been elected President of the Third Conference of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) for 2023-2024.
Overall, Kazakhstan is a party to START-I (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty), the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. . (TPNW).
Kazakhstan is the Soviet successor state that signed the TPNW and the former Soviet country in Central Asia that ratified the Convention on Nuclear Safety (CNS).
Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly in September 2021, under pressure that building a global nuclear weapons release is a priority of Kazakhstan’s foreign policy. This aspiration has a component of our national identity.
It is also worth examining the main points of the Semipalatinsk control site that was closed after the signing of a decree by the first president of Kazakhstan. In particular, the Semipalatinsk nuclear control site established on the territory of Kazakhstan by the Soviet Union in November 1946.
It is the first and largest nuclear control site in the Soviet Union. On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet nuclear control was carried out at the Semipalatinsk control site.
For more than 4 decades, the Soviet government conducted 456 nuclear tests at the Semipalatinsk site. Its total force between 1949 and 1963 (the year the tests went underground) was 2500 times greater than the force of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
More than 1. 3 million people in Kazakhstan were exposed to radioactive fallout during those atmospheric and underground tests, and vast tracts of land are now infected near Semei (formerly Semipalatinsk) and its environs.
In 1989, the Nevada-Semipalatinsk International Antinuclear Movement was established.
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, by decree of first President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan resigned and dismantled its nuclear arsenal (1,410 nuclear warheads, the fourth largest arsenal in the world at the time) and closed the Semipalatinsk nuclear control site on August 29. , 1991. Instead, the National Nuclear Centre of Kazakhstan was established in 1992.
Kazakhstan became a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) on 13 December 1993 as a non-nuclear-weapon State and, shortly thereafter, as a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). .
Kazakhstan was among the first to sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in 1996 and ratified it in 2001.
Kazakhstan ratified the START 1 treaty in 1992, and 4 years later, in September 1996, the 104 intercontinental ballistic missiles on the territory of our country were safely transferred to Russia and destroyed, 3 years ahead of the schedule provided for in the treaty.
During the era from 1996 to 2000, 181 control tunnels and thirteen wells were sealed at the Semipalatinsk nuclear control site.
Since 2004, projects have been implemented with the participation of Kazakhstan, Russia and the United States to eliminate the effect of control activities beyond nuclear energy and strengthen the physical barriers of services on the territory of the former Semipalatinsk control site.
In April 2010, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon filmed the control of Semipalatinsk in which he called on the global network to follow Kazakhstan’s example and avoid nuclear control. (ANI)