Nazarbayev calls a nuke-free world by 2045

    Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has urged the world to abandon nuclear weapons by the UN centenary in 2045.
    Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York on September 28, Nazarbayev said a world without nuclear weapons should become "the main goal of the humankind in the 21^st century."
    The president said Kazakhstan was the first country in history to close a nuclear site as it renounced the world's fourth-largest nuclear arsenal.
    The weapons were part of the arsenal of the Soviet Union before it collapsed in 1991.
    Nazarbayev also urged the international community to find a swift resolution to the Ukrainian conflict and called for the "full implementation” of a cease-fire agreement reached in Minsk in February.
    Nazarbayev also proposed a "unified global network to counter international terrorism and extremism," according to RFE/RL.