The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, Mukhtar Tlioberdi, noted that “the government of his country calls on the nuclear powers of the world to draw up a plan for the elimination of nuclear weapons, and the conflict in Ukraine makes us think about the vulnerability of mankind to these deadly weapons.” .”

On the eve of the first meeting of the states parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which will be held in Vienna on June 21-23, he noted that “the current military conflict on the territory of Ukraine, talk about the return of nuclear weapons and mutual threats to use nuclear weapons make us, like never before, to reflect on the collective weakness of humanity and the urgent need to ban and eliminate these deadly weapons.

“As UN Secretary General António Guterres notes, with about 13,400 nuclear warheads deployed around the world, the possibility of using nuclear weapons becomes more real than it was during the darkest days of the Cold War,” Teleberdi stressed.