Kazakhstan was in spotlight at Seoul Summit - expert Anton Caragea

    The Seoul summit has just ended, but its results were laid out long before it started. Anton Caragea, director of the Bucharest Institute of International Relations and Economic Cooperation said he believes we are witnessing the beginning of the birth of an international tradition on the regulation of nuclear weapons and nuclear safety, professor.
    According to a press statement from the Kazakh MFA, Caragea said that “even if the Seoul summit did not reach much success in terms of international settlements, although it offered a successful model for the management of nuclear safety with a simultaneous rejection of illusory protection offered by the nuclear weapons. in exchange for international commitment to ensure its security. We are talking about Kazakhstan”.
    Attending world leaders paid tribute to the Central Asian country, and its leader Nursultan Nazarbayev. First among these was the President of the United States, Barack Obama, who described Kazakhstan as an example for the world and expressed his support for initiatives of this country to create an international nuclear fuel bank.
    In addition to the persistent pursuit of nuclear disarmament, Kazakhstan has joined the Global G-8 Partnership against the spread of weapons and materials of mass destruction, and in 2005 ratified the amendments to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, which should go into effect in 2014, and in 2010 it successfully held the Astana Conference called, Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism.
    President Nursultan Nazarbayev has used his country’s prestige high prestige to promote measures that offer the possibility of using nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, such as:
    
    - the adoption of legally binding rules on nuclear safety;
    - establishing mechanisms for rapid response to emergencies at nuclear facilities;
    - providing all states equal access to civilian nuclear technology and sources of low-enriched uranium, including through the International Nuclear Fuel Bank.
    
    The growing support of world leaders for the Kazakh President’s vision of a world free of nuclear weapons has now offered a new chance for the Seoul Summit, officials say, Kazinform states.