Annex Situation assessment and priority needs in the Semipalatinsk region and nuclear weapons testing site

7. During the lifetime of the test site, the Semipalatinsk region became heavily dependent on economic activities associated with the nuclear testing ground.

Kazakhstan has set a commendable example by voluntarily eliminating its nuclear arsenal, the fourth largest in the world, and shutting down the Semipalatinsk nuclear testing ground, the site of nearly 500 nuclear explosions.

It is important that all the Central Asian countries decided to sign the Treaty in Semipalatinsk the former nuclear testing site where the former Soviet nuclear programme was realized.

4. India Pakistan Nuclear Testing

In February 2005, the countries of that region had finalized a draft treaty and had agreed to sign it at the former Soviet nuclear testing site, Semipalatinsk.

Nigeria supports the total elimination of nuclear testing.

The Conference affirms that observance of the existing moratorium on nuclear testing should not substitute for a comprehensive ban on nuclear weapon testing.

Nigeria believes, however, that observance of the existing moratorium on nuclear testing should not substitute for a comprehensive ban on nuclear weapon testing.

That issue was of direct interest to Kazakhstan, which was making a great effort to solve the problems posed by the testing of nuclear weapons over many years at the former Soviet nuclear test site at Semipalatinsk.

The ban on nuclear testing was another fundamental component.

Recalling all previous United Nations resolutions on nuclear testing

He had indicated that the French nuclear testing would continue.

14. The Semipalatinsk test site is a unique site because of its history of nuclear explosions.

Conference participants had visited the former test site and had once again been convinced of the need to provide assistance to Kazakhstan, which was working to overcome the serious consequences of nuclear testing.

To conduct on site testing, however, inspectors would have to provide all necessary equipment, reagents and supplies.

As early as 1986, we declared a moratorium on nuclear testing.

The Semipalatinsk test site territory refers to all the areas affected by the nuclear testing programme, namely, Semipalatinsk and East Kazakhstan (Ust Kamenogorsk) and the Departments of East Kazakhstan Oblast, Karaganda Oblast and Pavlodar Oblast.

In the meantime, existing moratoriums on nuclear testing must remain in place.

The President (interpretation from Spanish) Draft resolution G is entitled Nuclear testing .

Over the half century of the existence of the testing site, over 450 atomic and thermonuclear explosions were conducted.

Cuba is firmly opposed to nuclear testing through explosions or any other means.

The moratoriums on nuclear testing must be maintained until CTBT entered into force.

The Government of Pakistan has also today announced a unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing.

In the meantime, he called on all States to respect the moratorium on nuclear testing and on those States that had not yet done so to follow France's example and close their nuclear testing sites.

1. The Soviet Union initiated the Semipalatinsk nuclear testing range on 29 August 1949 by exploding a plutonium bomb. Tests continued in the Semipalatinsk test site, which came to be called the Polygon, for more than 40 years until the President of Kazakhstan closed the testing range by Decree No. 409 on 29 August 1991.

With 171 signatories and 112 ratifications, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) was a powerful international norm against nuclear testing.

54. The Forum called on all nuclear Powers that had conducted nuclear tests in the region to accept full responsibility and liability for past nuclear testing.

Over a period of four days, the representatives of more than 30 countries in the city of Kurchatov will have an opportunity to participate in visits to the facilities at the former Semipalatinsk test site, hear reports and discussions on practical measures to support the non proliferation regime, consider the issue of conversion of nuclear testing sites and their infrastructure and assess the effects of nuclear testing on the environment.

Those actions seriously call into question that State's commitment to the moratorium on nuclear testing.

New Zealand condemns these tests, as we have condemned all nuclear testing in the past.

Also reaffirming its commitment to the crucial importance of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to international efforts to halt proliferation of nuclear weapons through nuclear testing .

46. With regard to nuclear weapons testing as a threat to indigenous peoples, IITC cites Tahiti, Polynesia, in particular, as an indigenous community poisoned by such testing.

He called for negotiations for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons, and in the interim, a standstill agreement to halt nuclear testing.

Testing. Testing.

I have the honour to transmit herewith the text of the statement of 13 May 1998 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the underground testing of three nuclear devices at the Pokaran test site in India.

4. In the 1950s, nuclear weapons testing took place above ground and the characteristic mushroom cloud became the visible symbol of the nuclear age.

The Palau Constitution prohibits the use, testing, storage or disposal of nuclear, chemical, gas and biological weapons.

The Indian tests are in flagrant defiance of the international community apos s strong support for nuclear non proliferation and its opposition to nuclear testing.

The greatest nuclear risks posed by atomic radiation came from the operation of unsafe nuclear power plants, the abandoning and dumping at sea of old nuclear submarines, illicit trafficking in nuclear materials, nuclear testing and, of course, the use of nuclear weapons.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan is authorized to state that the news of the conduct on 11 May 1998 of underground testing of three nuclear devices at the Pokaran test site in India was received in Kazakhstan with deep concern.

In the UK, civil nuclear operators must have approved site security plans dealing with the security arrangements for the protection of nuclear sites and nuclear material on such sites.

However, later in 1996 all of the five traditionally acknowledged nuclear weapon Powers pledged to cease testing altogether by signing the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

It was encouraged by the decision by India and Pakistan to impose a moratorium on further nuclear testing.

Deeply concerned of the swift deterioration of the environment in the Semiplantisk nuclear test site zone,