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Kassymjomart Tokaev

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54

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1996-09-24

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1998-09-24

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1. “That is why the issue of reforming the United Nations, so that our common Organization can adequately respond to conflicting realities of international relations at this juncture, is becoming ever so urgent. Reforms are an indispensable element of any system’s development. They are even more important in the case of such a universal forum as the United Nations. In his speech at the Special Commemorative Meeting of the General Assembly, the President of Kazakstan underscored the important need to increase the world community’s efforts to elaborate a conceptual model of a renewed United Nations. It involves new objectives, tasks and functions of the United Nations of the next century. The United Nations, being a genuinely universal Organization, requires a special approach.”

   1996-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 51 (1996)

2. “That is why, when giving their due to all the countries which have trod the thorny path of preparing this Treaty, I believe it is necessary to recognize my country’s significant contribution to this extremely important cause. However, considerable progress in disarmament does not, regrettably, guarantee the stability of the present world order. We still witness some negative impulses destroying the basis of the relationship between the States which united more than half a century ago. We have to admit that with the disappearance of a bipolar world, our planet has not become safer. On the contrary, the potential for global conflict has increased considerably increased.”

   1996-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 51 (1996)

3. “The people of Kazakstan, having fully experienced the destructive power of nuclear weapons, resolutely voted to end the testing of these lethal weapons. In 1991 the President of Kazakstan, expressing the wish of his people, made a decision to shut down the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. Thus, Kazakstan had already taken decisive measures to ban nuclear testing five years ago. 20 Kazakstan is consistent in its policy of non- proliferation of nuclear weapons. Recently, we completed the dismantling of the nuclear infrastructure on the territory of Kazakstan, thereby eliminating the capability that was, until recently, the fourth largest in the world.”

   1996-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 51 (1996)

4. “I wish to congratulate the President of the General Assembly at its fifty-first session on his election to his high office. I would like to express my confidence that he will accomplish his important mission honourably. There is no doubt that the fifty-first session of the General Assembly will go down in the history of mankind as an important milestone on the world community’s road to global peace and security. One of the most important diplomatic documents of our century, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, has been opened for signing. On that occasion the President of Kazakstan, Mr. Nursultan Nazarbaev, made a special statement, which has been circulated as an official United Nations document.”

   1996-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 51 (1996)