Kazakhstan: The Concept of Legal Policy for 2010-2020
Statement by the Secretary of State - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kanat Saudabayev, at the IV Civil Forum
Address of Nursultan Nazarbayev, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan at the III Congress of leaders of world and traditional religions
APPEAL of the Participants of the III Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions
Address to the Nation by President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan January 29, 2010
"A New Decade, New Economic Growth, and New Opportunities for Kazakhstan"
Address to the Nation by President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan March 6, 2009
"Through Crisis to Renovation and Development"
OSCE: KAZAKHSTAN'S CHAIRMANSIP IN 2010
Extract from the speech delivered by President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev at the opening of the 17th annual sitting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (29 June 2008):
"Having been chosen to chair the OSCE, Kazakhstan has set the goal of strengthening the Organization as a forum for equitable dialogue, exchange of positive experience and search of effective solutions. Against the backdrop of growing challenges and threats, we speak in favor of turning the OSCE into a powerful organization...
Despite the current disputes, the OSCE potential defined 33 years ago in Helsinki remains solid.
We speak in favor of transforming the OSCE efforts with due consideration of interests of all its members. We believe our forthcoming chairmanship is a great opportunity to bring a new surge into the cooperation of member states.
We intend to highlight solutions to acute security issues, efforts to foster inter-culture and interfaith dialogue, efforts to level down new separating lines in Europe, search for factors to unite Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian areas of responsibilities of the Organization.
We will be rendering every possible support to the OSCE efforts to eradicate racism, intolerance and discrimination. We expect Kazakhstan's chairmanship in the Organization to facilitate bringing solutions to problems of Central Asia, boost the region's cooperation with Europe and assist in joint efforts in Afghanistan.
Europe and Asia is a single subcontinent interlaced with multiple historic and economic ties. We cannot meet the current challenges and procure safety without joining our efforts. I believe that following in the steps of the European Union we will come one day to forming of Eurasian Union. This is what is required for prosperity of Eurasia, our common large continent..
The decision to grant the OSCE chairmanship to Kazkhastan in 2010 has lead us to developing of a special program "Path to Europe."
STATE PROGRAMME PATH TO EUROPE 2009-2011
KAZAKHSTAN LEADS NUCLEAR-WEAPONS-FREE ZONE INITIATIVE
On March 21st, the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone (NWFZ) in Central Asia - signed on September, 8, 2006 - came into force.
Kazakhstan welcomes the Treaty and believes that it will contribute further to the global non-proliferation process - and strengthen regional and international security.
The initiative on establishment of the NWFZ in Central Asia was developed under the United Nations aegis (a number of resolutions were passed by the UN General Assembly to support the Zone's creation).
According to Kazakhstan's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Marat Tazhin, the historical document signed in 2006 in the Kazakh city of Semei - by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan - "became the apotheosis of five Central Asian countries' near decade-long efforts to create a NWFZ... It was highly symbolic that the signing of the document took place in Semei - as Eastern Kazakhstan suffered most from nuclear tests [during the Soviet period]. By our actions, the military nuclear complex employment that started back in August 1949 in Semipalatinsk came to its logical termination."
The ratification of the Treaty is an extension of Kazakhstan's initiatives in the field of regional and international security strengthening; in 1991 Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed the decree to close Semipalatinsk - where 459 nuclear explosions had been conducted.
Minister Tazhin, however, added this week: "As an active participant of the disarmament process" he said, "we regret to note the stagnation of the nuclear disarmament process. The international community has failed to address issues of disarmament and non-proliferation in the absence of consensus and political will."
A Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone, or NWFZ, is defined by the UN as an agreement, generally by internationally recognized treaty, to ban the use, development, or deployment of nuclear weapons in a given area. Additionally, this agreement has mechanisms of verification and control to enforce its obligations. Any Treaty does not prohibit the development of peaceful national nuclear programs. Latin America and the Caribbean was the first Zone to be established in 1967. Three more Zones were subsequently created - the South Pacific (Treaty of Rarotonga, 1985), Southeast Asia (Treaty of Bangkok, 1995) and Africa (Treaty of Pelindaba, 1996). The Central Asian Zone is the fifth in the world and is situated in a territory completely surrounded by land and fully located in the northern hemisphere.
Kazakhstan adopts Law on Islamic Finance
Bericht über die Einhaltung von Menschenrechten, zusammengestellt nach den Arbeitsergebnissen des Beauftragten für Menschenrechte im Jahr 2008
Unrepeated precedent for the sake of peace
Kazakhstan's rejection of nuclear weapons ownership
Towards a world free from the nuclear weapons
Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA)
Cooperation with international security organizations
Stabilization and economic reconstruction of Afghanistan
Energy Security
Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Confessional Accord
