The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan declared the need to ban nuclear weapons

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tleuberdi. File photoALMA-ATA, June 19Kazakhstan calls on the nuclear powers of the world to develop a plan for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the conflict in Ukraine makes us think about the vulnerability of humanity to these deadly weapons, says Deputy Prime Minister — Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic Mukhtar Tleuberdi. «The current military conflict on the territory of Ukraine, talk about the return of nuclear weapons and mutual threats of the use of nuclear weapons make us, like never before, think about the collective vulnerability of humanity and the urgent need to ban and eliminate these deadly weapons,» he wrote in an article for Kazakhstani and foreign media on the eve of the first meeting of the states parties to the Ban Treaty Nuclear Weapons Treaty (TPNW), which will be held June 21-23 in Vienna.The European Parliament called for the transfer of nuclear weapons to UkraineAccording to the head of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry, «as UN Secretary General António Guterres notes, today, when about 13.4 thousand nuclear warheads are dispersed around the world, the possibility of using nuclear weapons has become more real than in the darkest days of the Cold War.» Tleuberdi emphasized that the practical contribution of Kazakhstan to nuclear disarmament gives the moral right to continue to call on the peoples and governments to redouble their efforts to rid the planet of the threat of nuclear self-destruction on the basis of strengthening mutual trust. meeting of the NPT in 2022 and the chairman of the third meeting for the period 2024-2026.» We call on all states, including nuclear powers, to develop a phased plan for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons by 2045, the centenary of the UN. Proposals and agreements to achieve this goal could would be reflected in the final documents of both the first conference of the NPT and the NPT Review Conference (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty — ed.),» the minister wrote. >In Germany, they started talking about a nuclear threat due to US actions in Ukraine