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Kanat Saudabayev

lines on the record: 33
first: 2009-09-24
most recent: 2010-09-24
sittings or episodes: 2
sources: un-general-debate

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“With those values and ideals in mind, Kazakhstan has put forward its candidature to the Human Rights Council for the 2012-2015 term, which we hope will be supported. Over the past 65 years the United Nations has made an enormous contribution to international peace and security on the Earth and to the solution of many social, economic, humanitarian and other problems. It is in our common interests that the United Nations continue to demonstrate leadership in promoting peace and cooperation and sustainable progress on Earth. Kazakhstan not only has consistently supported and supports the activities of the United Nations, but always seeks to contribute to the attainment of the lofty goals set by our respected Organization.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“Given their global nature, they call for an effective new approach on the part of the donor community to solve these problems. Kazakhstan is firmly committed to the democratization of its society and building a State based on the rule of law. In February this year, our country successfully passed its first universal periodic review of the Human Rights Council and intends to fully implement its recommendations. Reaffirming its 47 10-55103 commitment to open and constructive cooperation in the area of human rights, Kazakhstan has sent a standing invitation to all mandate holders of the Council’s special procedures. Our country has always been and still remains open to cooperation with the international community in the protection and realization of individual rights and freedoms.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“Finding an urgent solution to environmental problems is one of our main responsibilities to future generations. It is also a prerequisite of preserving life on Earth. In this context, we have initiated plans for holding ministerial conferences for the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the Economic Commission for Europe in 2010 or 2011 in Astana. The goal of these events is to build a “green bridge” between Europe and Asia and to harmonize programmes for sustainable development and environmental protection. We appreciate the assistance provided by the international community, including the United Nations and its specialized agencies and programmes, to our country’s efforts to overcome the effects of environmental disasters in the Aral Sea and Semipalatinsk regions.”
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“Instead, it should produce a qualitative restructuring of the entire system of international economic relations. We believe that all the world’s economic problems are rooted in the inefficiency of the existing world monetary system, which no one controls and which is not democratic. Kazakhstan’s leader has proposed that a new financial architecture be developed, with a global regulatory system to oversee financial markets at its core. Such a mechanism would allow us to avoid speculative interflows of resources that exist only on paper and a situation in which developing countries are actually financing consumption in the developed countries. The establishment of a more stable macroeconomic model, in our view, calls for the introduction of a single supranational currency, under the auspices of the United Nations.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“In this context, I would like to note with great satisfaction that the first meeting of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-building Measures in Asia and the OSCE, which was held in June 2010 in Istanbul, has laid the foundation for a future transcontinental security belt. It appears that the level of institutional development of the Conference and the growing interest in its activities on the part of Asian countries will allow us to consider that forum as a prototype of a collective security system in Asia. Today, the world is slowly but surely emerging from a severe financial and economic crisis. At this juncture, it is critically important to ensure that the development of a post-crisis model of development is not limited to cosmetic measures.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“Based on its experience, Kazakhstan supports the active use of the capacity of authoritative regional arrangements, such as the OSCE and the OIC, in efforts to overcome nationalism, religious intolerance, racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism, and we intend to work for the adoption of concrete decisions within those organizations. We are deeply convinced that today security cannot be for a single country, region or continent alone. Therefore Kazakhstan believes that all existing structures of regional and international security must coordinate their efforts and cooperate actively together.”
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“At the initiative of the President of Kazakhstan, Astana has become the venue for a unique forum, the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, recognized today as an effective platform for dialogue to promote ideas of interfaith peace and harmony. As a sponsor of resolution 62/90, we welcome the efforts of Member States, UNESCO and other international organizations to conduct activities in observance of the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. We commend the work of the Alliance of Civilizations and stand ready to continue to actively cooperate with it to promote the goals and objectives of the Alliance at the international level.”
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“Accordingly, Kazakhstan attaches great importance to the Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Center (CARICC) for combating illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs, 10-55103 46 psychotropic substances and their precursors, located in Almaty, Kazakhstan. We believe that CARICC can and should become a platform for interaction between regional anti-drug agencies. We also intend to take those issues forward within the framework of our activities in other international organizations, including the upcoming 2011-2012 Kazakhstan chairmanship of the Ministerial Conference of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). One of the universally accepted themes is the promotion of the ideas of tolerance, non- discrimination, and intercultural and interfaith dialogue.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“In the context of countering new challenges and threats, primarily terrorism and drug trafficking, we pay close attention to the implementation of counter- terrorism conventions and Security Council resolutions, and we support early adoption of a comprehensive convention on international terrorism. Kazakhstan has actively supported the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. At the initiative of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan put forward at the global Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, in April 2010, a proposal for a conference on countering the financing of terrorism. That phenomenon is closely linked to drug trafficking, and thus combating that scourge is one of our top priorities.”
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“On the initiative of our head of State, an educational programme has begun this year to train some 1,000 Afghan nationals in the educational institutions of Kazakhstan for careers in medicine, agriculture and construction. We have allocated $50 million to that purpose. The serious political crisis in Kyrgyzstan, which could have extremely negative consequences not only for Central Asia but also far beyond its borders, has demonstrated the lack of an effective and comprehensive mechanism to prevent such conflicts. That is why the forthcoming OSCE summit provides a unique opportunity to develop an appropriate mechanism, drawing on the great potential and experience of the OSCE, the United Nations and other multilateral institutions.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“I have no doubt that this upcoming Astana summit will become a landmark in the progressive movement of the OSCE participating States towards shaping a truly common and indivisible security community in the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian zones, based on shared values, principles and commitments. In that regard, we view the discussion at this OSCE summit of the issue of the stabilization and social and economic rehabilitation of Afghanistan as an important contribution to regional and global security. Time has proven that a purely military solution to the Afghan problem does not exist. Accordingly, Kazakhstan favours enhanced efforts by the international community to adapt Afghanistan to post- war development.”
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“As 2010 Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Kazakhstan, in the interests of all participating States, has emphasized efforts to shape not a security space but a security community, free of dividing lines and zones with different levels of security. The promotion of an atmosphere of trust in the interests of all and strengthening consensus on key issues in all three dimensions of OSCE activities has made it possible to reach a historic consensus on an OSCE summit, to be held on 1 and 2 December 2010 in the capital of Kazakhstan. It will be the first such event in the past 11 years.”
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“We support the legitimate and inalienable right of each State party to the NPT to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. However, such activities should be carried out in a transparent manner and on the basis of strict compliance with all requirements of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and under its control. Kazakhstan, the world’s largest uranium producer, intends to contribute to the development of nuclear energy and is ready to host an international nuclear fuel bank, under the auspices of the IAEA, and to commit itself to its safe storage.”
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“The establishment of new zones free from nuclear weapons, including in the Middle East, would represent another step towards achieving the goal of a nuclear-free world. We are convinced that a focused and progressive move in that direction would contribute to the establishment of trust among neighbours in the region and lay the foundations for a radical change in the situation of that long-suffering region. Addressing the Assembly from this rostrum, I would like to reaffirm the urgency and relevance of the initiative of the President of Kazakhstan, Mr. Nursultan Nazarbayev, to draft a universal declaration on a nuclear-free world, which would reflect the commitment of all States to firmly and consistently move towards a nuclear-weapon-free world.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“We are satisfied that the States parties to the NPT were able to adopt a final document last May at the conclusion of the latest NPT Review Conference. But new and more decisive steps are needed today for nuclear disarmament. An early drafting of a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty, which along with the CTBT should become an important pillar of the NPT, is one such step. 45 10-55103 We believe that it is extremely important to begin, as soon as possible, to draft an international legally binding instrument providing security assurances by nuclear Powers to non-nuclear-weapon States. Only such assurances can effectively keep in check the aspirations of certain non-nuclear States to acquire nuclear weapons, which they regard as a guarantee of their own security.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“For the people of Kazakhstan, who know only too well all the horrors of nuclear tests, the issue of a total ban on such tests is particularly relevant. Over the course of 40 years, some 490 nuclear explosions were carried out at the Semipalatinsk test site, affecting more than half a million people and damaging territory as large as today’s Germany. Today we call upon States that have not signed or ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) to do so as soon as possible. The entry into force of the CTBT will become one of the key areas of effective implementation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), an important instrument forming a foundation for the security of all humanity.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“On 29 August 1991, the President of Kazakhstan, Mr. Nursultan Nazarbayev, issued a decree that unilaterally shut down, once and for all, one of the world’s largest nuclear test sites. It is highly symbolic that 18 years later, the General Assembly at its preceding session acted upon his initiative to adopt a resolution establishing 29 August as the International Day against Nuclear Tests (resolution 64/35). The unanimous adoption of the resolution has effectively reaffirmed the commitment of the international community to the process of reducing the nuclear threat. The April visit of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to Kazakhstan started with a tour of the former Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. Standing right on the former Ground Zero, he urged the international community to redouble its efforts to create a world free of nuclear weapons.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“First of all, I would like to offer congratulations on the upcoming sixty-fifth anniversary of the United Nations. For an individual person, 65 is an age when life experience turns into wisdom. As the great Goethe once said, it is our experience that teaches us to truly appreciate life. Today, the United Nations, with its 65 years of experience gained in the noble work for peace and progress, is the most reputable and relevant international organization there is. Each State Member of the United Nations, regardless of its size or power, seeks to contribute to building a safer and better world. On 29 August 1949, the first atomic explosion on the ancient Kazakh land was carried out near the city of Semipalatinsk, unleashing an insane nuclear arms race and inflicting enormous suffering on the people of Kazakhstan.”
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“Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Junior said: “Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they do not know each other; they do not know each other because they cannot communicate; they cannot communicate because they are separated.” Regrettably, those words are often true today, but they should not be so tomorrow. In an age of globalization and unprecedented interdependence in the world, there should no longer be mistrust, fear and hatred, but the principles of trust, understanding and cooperation should triumph. Only together can we properly address the difficult challenges facing humankind today and make our world safer and better.”
2009-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 64 (2009)
“In today’s rapidly changing world, the adaptation of the United Nations to modern realities is an important task for all Member States. Kazakhstan supports the reform process for the United Nations and its main bodies based on the principled position of the need to increase the effectiveness, authority and relevance of our global Organization. We are convinced that there is no alternative to the United Nations in the modern world, and there never will be. We support reforms on three principal tracks: revitalization of the work of the General Assembly, reform of the Security Council and coherence of the United Nations system.”
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“A unique security architecture is being created in Eurasia, its most important elements being organizations such as the OSCE, the Conference on Interaction and Confidence- building Measures in Asia (CICA), the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Collective Security Treaty Organization and NATO. In that regard, CICA, convened as a result of an initiative introduced by President Nazarbayev from this rostrum in 1992, has become an effective mechanism for strengthening regional security and cooperation. In 2010, as our country takes up the chairmanship of the OSCE, we intend to work for the good of all its member States to strengthen the organization’s effectiveness in addressing new challenges and threats, as well as to further strengthen confidence-building and security measures in the Euro-Atlantic community.”
2009-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 64 (2009)
“At Kazakhstan’s initiative, the General Assembly adopted resolution 62/90 at its sixty-second session, declaring 2010 the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. We call on United Nations Member States to participate actively in celebrating the Year. Kazakhstan fully supports the goals of the Alliance of Civilizations and calls on all Member States and agencies of the United Nations system to contribute to strengthening tolerance and mutual understanding in the world. In the current circumstances, the regional aspect of solving global problems takes on added importance. Our country is firmly committed to the consistent strengthening of regional cooperation for security and development in Central Asia.”
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“Located at the confluence of Asia and Europe and having maintained peace and harmony in a multi-ethnic and multireligious country throughout its years of independence, Kazakhstan is ready to act as a bridge of mutual understanding and tolerance between the East and the West. As Chair of the OSCE in 2010 and of the 2011 ministerial conference of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Kazakhstan is eager fully to use this unique opportunity to strengthen constructive cooperation between diverse cultures and civilizations and to take concrete measures on this issue. Furthermore, since 2003 our country has hosted three Congresses of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, supported by the United Nations.”
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“The leader of our country was among the first to share his vision for the world’s post- crisis development. He proposed drafting an international law on a single world currency, and the eventual establishment of a world emissions centre, a world anti-monopoly currency committee and a world committee on market freedom. The United Nations with its structural bodies and specialized agencies is the only global organization capable of addressing such large-scale issues. At a time of acute social and economic breakdowns, the danger of inter-ethnic and inter-religious conflicts increases considerably.”
2009-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 64 (2009)
“Unfortunately, the world’s economic development and the great leap forward in technology over the past 60 years could not solve such eternal problems as poverty and hunger. The gap between the rich and the poor continues to grow. More 09-52470 54 than a billion people live on less than $1 a day. Despite our exceptional achievements in modern science and medicine, almost 10 million children under five die every year of curable diseases. More than 30 million people worldwide live with HIV, while only 3 million of those have access to antiretroviral therapy. The economic crisis has forced us to rethink and revisit many conceptual approaches that earlier seemed etched in stone. It has demonstrated once again the urgency of unifying all States’ efforts in addressing modern challenges.”
2009-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 64 (2009)
“I wish to draw the attention of the General Assembly to a proposal of the President of Kazakhstan on declaring 29 August international day for a world free of nuclear weapons. That date has deep symbolical meaning. On that day in 1949, the Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk test site in Kazakhstan, and on the same day in 1991 the test site was shut down forever by decree of our Government. We hope that the General Assembly will support this initiative. Today, humankind is experiencing the most serious global financial and economic crisis in decades. According to the International Monetary Fund, approximately 50 States have edged to the brink of an economic catastrophe. At the same time, the present crisis was largely inevitable.”
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“Kazakhstan is ready to consider the possibility of locating it on our territory. One important contribution made by Kazakhstan and other States of Central Asia to the implementation of the NPT was the entry into force in March of the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia. The peculiarity of the Zone is that it is located between two of the world’s largest nuclear Powers. The Zone could play a large practical role in preventing the uncontrolled proliferation of nuclear materials and in countering nuclear terrorism. We count on support for the Central Asian Zone, above all from the nuclear Powers, including their possible extension of negative security guarantees. We support the United States of America’s initiative to convene a global nuclear security summit next year.”
2009-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 64 (2009)
“It is gratifying that the measures being undertaken today by the international community reflects the principled position that President Nazarbayev has expressed more than once from this rostrum and in bilateral meetings with heads of nuclear-weapon States and of States with nuclear ambitions. It is necessary now more than ever to take even more decisive actions. Our President has proposed the development of a new universal treaty on comprehensive horizontal and vertical nuclear non-proliferation. The configuration of the new treaty and its contents will largely depend on the proposals of all interested States. An effective measure to strengthen the non-proliferation regime could be the establishment of an international nuclear fuel bank under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Commission.”
2009-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 64 (2009)
“We welcome the efforts of United States President Barack Obama to give new impetus to the non-proliferation process and to eliminate the nuclear threat. Kazakhstan is in favour of strengthening and ensuring the universality of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). We must recognize that the Treaty is asymmetric in that it provides for sanctions only against non-nuclear- weapon States, whereas the nuclear Powers themselves should set the example of reducing and renouncing their nuclear arsenals. In this regard, Kazakhstan welcomed the unanimous adoption yesterday of Security Council resolution 1887 (2009) and believes that this historic decision opens a new era in humankind’s efforts to create a world without nuclear weapons.”
2009-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 64 (2009)
“The prospect of the proliferation of nuclear weapons, along with the risk of their acquisition and use by terrorist organizations, remains one of the most serious threats to mankind. As a country that has experienced the horrors of nuclear tests, shut down the world’s second-largest nuclear testing site, at Semipalatinsk, and voluntarily renounced the world’s fourth-largest nuclear and missile arsenal, Kazakhstan has an absolute moral right to call for more decisive action in the area of disarmament and for the radical strengthening of the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction regime. In particular, Kazakhstan deems it important to ensure the soonest possible entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.”
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“We provide considerable humanitarian aid to that country. Moreover, we are developing a long- term educational programme to train qualified Afghan 53 09-52470 specialists, and are also considering other forms of assistance to that country. Long-term stability in Afghanistan is impossible without effective measures to tackle illicit drug trafficking. The Central Asia Regional Information and Coordination Centre has been established in Almaty, with the support of the United Nations, to fight illicit drug trafficking. As the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 2010, I intend to make the stabilization of the situation in Afghanistan — a regional neighbour of the OSCE — one of the organization’s greatest priorities.”
2009-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 64 (2009)
“This terrorist act and the world’s unity in its strict condemnation showed that only together can we make our present and our future safer and better. Indeed, the key to the successful resolution of today’s most acute problems lies precisely in the world’s unity and understanding. President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan and our entire people have supported the global fight against terrorism from the start by assisting the efforts of the international coalition in Afghanistan. However, there has never been and there will never be a purely military solution to the Afghan problem. We note with satisfaction that coalition members have begun to pay more attention to non-military aspects of security. To the best of its ability, Kazakhstan is also assisting the international efforts to rehabilitate Afghanistan.”
2009-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 64 (2009)
“At the outset, I would like to congratulate Mr. Treki on his election to the high post of President of the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session and wish him every success as he presides over the session. Eight years ago, on 11 September, Ms. Zhannetta Tsoy, a citizen of Kazakhstan, having kissed her daughter and husband, left for her first day at a new job in New York’s tallest building. Two hours later, she perished, along with 3,000 Americans and citizens of other 91 countries. She was buried under the debris of what had once been the World Trade Centre’s Twin Towers. On that day, as Kazakhstan’s ambassador in Washington D.C., along with all Americans and others, I felt acutely how fragile, vulnerable and interdependent our world had become.”
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