5th annual session of the Astana Club, the largest venue where its participants discuss the issues of geopolitics and security in the region, has kicked off in Nur-Sultan.
This year’s session of the club will be themed Big Eurasia: On the path to the new architecture of global cooperation. The session will focus on the issues of security and strategic future of Big Eurasia. The event will bring together over 50 world’s top politicians, experts from Eurasia and experts in international relations. Among those participating are former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, former President of Slovenia Danilo Türk, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei, Chairman of JP Morgan Chase, International Jacob A. Frenkel and many others.
The event is organized by the Fund of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan-Elbasy and the Institute of World Economy and Politics under the Fund.
First President of Kazakhstan-Elbasy Nursultan Nazarbayev has suggested creating the Global Alliance of leaders for nuclear-free world.
While speaking at the 5th session of the Astana Club in the Kazakh capital, Nursultan Nazarbayev noted that the world needs an authoritative, global platform for promotion of the nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation agenda. That is why the First President of Kazakhstan believes it is necessary to establish the Global Alliance of leaders for nuclear-free world.
He added that the world’s leading scientists, politicians and diplomats could have joined their efforts to promote non-proliferation.
«I propose participants of the forum to consider the prospects of creation of such international alliance,» Nazarbayev said.
By Kazinform.
