Nazarabev: "The World is Sliding Into New Nuclear Age"

• 11.08.2016, 14:52
•  EEU,  World

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Due to TASS, Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev, addressing Japan’s upper house of parliament, emphasized that the world has been slipping into a new nuclear age while the risks of using nuclear weapons are higher than they have ever been after the Cold War ended.
 

According to him, the current "unprecedented confidence crisis between the world leaders is causing the assurances of nuclear restraint to decline." As he told, all the leaders need to muster political will in order to turn back this trend.

Nazarbayev stated that the time had come for the legislators and ordinary citizens to urge their governments to renounce nuclear weapons. He mentioned that as long as the great powers continue to retain and improve their nuclear arms while preventing others from developing, testing and spreading these kinds of weapons, this issue cannot be solved. The president pointed out that Kazakhstan had voluntarily decided to renounce nuclear arms and facilitated the establishment of a nuclear-free zone.