Kazakhstan made a proposal on nuclear weapons

Kazakhstan called on the countries of the world to develop a phased plan for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons by 2045. Such an appeal to politicians was made by Deputy Prime Minister - Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tleuberdi, Russian Interfax reports .

He noted that the situation that has developed on the territory of Ukraine makes us think about the need to ban nuclear weapons. In this regard, Kazakhstan proposed to develop a phased plan for the failure of weapons.

The current military conflict on the territory of Ukraine, talk about the return of nuclear weapons and mutual threats of the use of nuclear weapons make us, more than ever before, think about the collective vulnerability of humanity and the urgent need to ban and eliminate these deadly weapons, he said.

He noted that now more than 13 thousand nuclear warheads are dispersed in the world and the possibility of their use has become much more real than in the "darkest days of the Cold War."

We call on all states, including nuclear powers, to develop a phased plan for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons by 2045, by the centenary of the UN, Tleuberdi said.

According to the minister, Kazakhstan's practical contribution to nuclear disarmament "gives the moral right to continue calling on peoples and governments to redouble their efforts to rid our planet of the threat of nuclear self-destruction on the basis of strengthening mutual trust."

Kazakhstan has nominated its candidacy for the position of Deputy Chairman of the First Meeting of the NPT in 2022 and Chairman of the Third Meeting for the period 2024-2026, the Foreign Minister said.

The first meeting of the states-participants of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will take place in Vienna on June 21-23.