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Электронное аналитическое издание «DefSecInfo» (Венгрия), 19.06.2009, A CRIME AGAINST LIFE - NAZARBAYEV ON SEMIPALATINSK TEST SITE ANNIVERSARY
"A crime against life" President Nazarbayev said about the Semipalatinsk Test Site (STS), remembering 20th anniversary of closing it. A radiological medical treatment center is needed, he added.
He spoke about the selflessness, fearlessness and enthusiasm of millions of Kazakhs to end what he described as "a crime against life." The total power of nuclear charges in the atmosphere and on the surface/underground of the STS was 2,500 times more than that of the Hiroshima bomb yield. The accumulation of radioactive material in the region exceeded that released by the Chernobyl accident in 1986. In all, 456 nuclear tests were carried out on the Site, the last being carried on October 19, 1989, a communique issued by Kazakhstan Embassy in Budapest said.
The almost irreparable environmental damage has also played havoc with the health of the local population (high rates of cancer, childhood leukemia and Birth defects). The total number of Kazakhs subjected to the effects of radiation is thought to be more than million people and the effects of residual radiation remains unpredictable. To restore the disrupted environment and ecology to its original state will take more than 300 years. President Nazarbayev has already expressed the need for the creation of a cluster of radiological medical treatment centers to diagnose and treat oncologic diseases and other maladies caused by radiation. President Nazarbayev also expressed hope that Kazakhstan's experience of creating a nuclear weapon-free zone in Central Asia will influence other parts of the world to do likewise.
Questions of international security will become one of the top priorities of the forthcoming OSCE chairmanship of Kazakhstan. Mr. Nazarbayev was from the very beginning entirely behind the anti-nuclear grassroots movement Kazakhstan declared its independence in 1991. However, few other countries have followed Kazakhstan's example, and a potential nuclear conflict threatens mankind.
We appeal to everyone to join the global movement on non-proliferation and destroy nuclear weapons. Only by joint efforts can we keep the world from nuclear insanity, a communique said. We - in Kazakhstan - want a safe world for all children everywhere!"
The denuclearized zone in Central Asia has a number of unique features...
1. Kazakhstan once had the fourth largest nuclear arsenal in the world.
2. The denuclearized zone was the first to be created in the Northern Hemisphere.
3. The Nuclear Non-ProliferationTreaty was the first multilateral security agreement to bring together all five Central Asian countries.
Finally, for the first time ever, a denuclearized zone has been created in a region that borders two nuclear states (Russia and China).
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