A meeting with the Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) took place in Geneva

On June 11, a meeting between the Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations Office in Geneva Zhanar Aitzhanova and Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research Robin Geiss took place.

During the meeting, the Director of UNIDIR expressed his gratitude to Kazakhstan for the support provided to the Institute, and also informed about the priorities in the Institute's work in the coming period, including in the field of new technologies, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, as well as autonomous lethal weapon systems.

For her part, the Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the UN Office in Geneva informed about the priorities of Kazakhstan in the field of nuclear disarmament, as well as about President Kassym-Jomart K. Tokayev’s initiative to create an International Agency for Biological Safety. Furthermore, the Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan informed on the plans to hold in August this year in Geneva the International Conference «Kazakhstan – UN: partnership for peace» on the occasion of the 30^th anniversary of the closure of the Semipalatinsk test site and of August 29 – the International Day against Nuclear Tests.

As a result of the meeting, an agreement was reached to strengthen cooperation with UNIDIR on biological safety issues, using the research potential of UNIDIR. The parties also agreed on the engagement of the Institute in the work of the above-mentioned conference planned to be held this year in Geneva.