Wide Support for UN Talks on a Legal Ban-the-Bomb Tool – Japanese

核兵器の法的禁止協議に広範な支持

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大量破壊兵器である核兵器を禁止する協議を２０１７年に開始する提案を多くの非核兵器国が押し通した。核兵器廃絶国際キャンペーン（ICAN）はこれを「ドラマチックな最終日」と呼んでいる。

核軍縮に関する公開作業部会（OEWG）は８月１９日、２月以来開催されてきた一連の会期の第３ラウンドを終了した。核兵器を禁止し、最終的にはその廃絶につながるような法的措置に関する交渉を開始することを１０月に開かれる国連総会に勧告する報告書を賛成多数で採択した。

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Disarmament Talk with Kazakh Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov

Press Briefing by Erlan Idrissov, Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan on 29 August 2016 in Astana with questions by Ramesh Jaura DG & Chief Editor IDN-INPS. Filmed & Edited by Katsuhiro Asagiri, Bureau Chief INPS Japan.

Disarmament Talk with Kazakh Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov

Press Briefing by Erlan Idrissov, Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan on 29 August 2016 in Astana with questions by Ramesh Jaura DG & Chief Editor IDN-INPS. Filmed & Edited by Katsuhiro Asagiri, Bureau Chief INPS Japan.

Kazakhstan Claims ‘Moral Right’ to Push for Banning Nukes

By Ramesh Jaura

BERLIN | ASTANA (IDN) – The fact that President Nursultan Nazarbayev shut down the Semipalatinsk test site “against the interests of the Soviet military authorities” even before the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan became “fully independent”, is not widely known.

The decision reflected a strong political will, the courage to translate it into reality, and put a series of follow-up measures in place which, as Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov says, give Kazakhstan “the moral right to push for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, both globally and regionally”.

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