Topic: Recommendations for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review
Country: Kazakhstan
Delegate Name: Jack Klein
School: Kalamazoo Central High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Kazakhstan position papers GLIMUN 2014 committees
The Republic of Kazakhstan is firm on its support of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Kazakhstan will continue to support any actions or treaties that can prevent the use of WMD’s and establish nuclear free zones.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the Republic of Kazakhstan inherited over 1,400 nuclear warheads, as well as the Semipalatinsk test site. By 1995, Kazakhstan sent its nuclear warheads back to Russia, as well as destroying the Semipalatinsk site by 2000. Kazakhstan is a party to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I), an agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in each country’s arsenal. The Republic of Kazakhstan is also a party to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), an agreement to prohibit all nuclear testing if it enters into force. Kazakhstan also signed a treaty establishing a Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone (CANWFZ), along with four other Central Asian states- Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, a treaty that entered into force on March 21, 2009. In February of 2007, Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nasarbayev signed into law an Additional Protocol to its safeguards agreement with the IAEA, an agreement to promote the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
For years now, the Republic of Kazakhstan has taken actions to promote peaceful and safe uses of nuclear energy, while also taking the necessary steps to control nuclear weapon testing, cut down on nuclear arsenals, and prevent the uses of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD’s).
