Kazakhstan attends the Ministerial Meeting of the Stockholm Initiative

Nur-Sultan, December 14, 2021 - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Mukhtar Tileuberdi, took part in the 5th Ministerial Meeting of the Stockholm Initiative for Nuclear Disarmament, organized in a hybrid format in Stockholm.

The ministers exchanged views on the current situation in nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation in the run-up to the 10th Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), welcomed the negotiations of the nuclear powers on arms control and nuclear risk reduction, considered ways to enhance the common vision of disarmament, and expressed positive assessment of the efforts of participants in the Stockholm Initiative to build a dialogue between nuclear and non-nuclear states.

The Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan, noting the commitment of Kazakhstan to the idea of achieving a world free of nuclear weapons, emphasized the relevance of the initiative of the First President of Kazakhstan, Leader of the Nation Nursultan Nazarbayev, to develop a plan under the auspices of the UN for a comprehensive reduction of strategic offensive arms with the participation of all nuclear states and the establishment of the Global Alliance of Leaders for a Nuclear-Free World, supported by more than 70 prominent world politicians.

The ministerial meeting adopted a joint statement, which expressed the interest of the participants in the initiative in achieving visible results following the Review Conference, calling on the countries possessing nuclear weapons to take decisive steps towards nuclear disarmament.

The Stockholm Initiative for Nuclear Disarmament includes 16 states: Argentina, Germany, Indonesia, Spain, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of Korea, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Ethiopia and Japan.