Topic: Re-Evaluating the Chemical Weapons Convention
Country: Kazakhstan
Delegate Name: Ryan Peplinski
School: Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Kazakhstan position papers GLIMUN 2017 committees
The Republic of Kazakhstan believes in the present Chemical Weapons Convention. Our nation believes that it is an inhuman crime and those nations that have broke the convention be punished.
The country of Kazakhstan inherited chemical and nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union when under its control. However our nation in the first ten years of independence have dismantled the soviet weapon systems and facilities. One of which was Stepnogorsk one of the largest bioweapon plants during the Cold War. The facilities like Stepnogorsk have been changed for other uses by the National Center for Biotechnology (a Kazakhstan civilian body created in 1993). In the United Nations meeting on April 12, 2017, where they created a resolution that condemned the chemical weapon attacks on Khan Shaykhun in Syria. Even though the resolution failed Kazakhstan delegate Kairat Umarov condemned the use of chemical weapons. Our nation believes that the Middle East should be free from all weapons of mass destruction. Especially nations such Syria that are in an ongoing civil war.
In re-evaluating the Chemical Weapons Convention we seek to help nations get rid of facilities used for making these weapons. For nations that break the convention and use such weapons should be punished through sanctions and other means. Our nation would like to help other nations in getting rid of these weapons and helping them re purpose the chemical weapon facilities for the greater good. The Republic of Kazakhstan looks forward to working with the other nations, and giving its insight in chemical weapons to help the other nations.
