Kazakhstan’s

Nuclear Disarmament

A Global Model for a Safer World

 Washington, DC

2006

“The threat of nuclear terrorism puts us in a race between

cooperation and catastrophe. The kind of cooperation we see

again and again from Kazakhstan on a continuing

basis can help us win that race.”

Sam Nunn

Co-chairman and

Chief Executive Officer,

Nuclear Threat Initiative

Former U.S. Senator (D-GA)

To courage, vision and unwavering commitment of

all those who treasure peace…

Contents

Foreword

By Ambassador Kanat Saudabayev and Senator Sam Nunn

Chapter 1

Kazakhstan-Nuclear Threat Initiative Highly Enriched Uranium Down-Blending Project:

An Example for the World

Kazakhstan: Strengthening International Cooperation for Peace and Security, an international symposium in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan, October 8, 2005

Address of President Nursultan A. Nazarbayev of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Message from President George W. Bush of the United States of America

Remarks and biographies of: Robert Joseph United States Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security

Ted Turner Co-chairman, Nuclear Threat Initiative

Kassymzhomart Tokaev Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Pierre Lellouche Deputy of the French National Assembly, President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

Message from Mohammed ElBaradei Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency

(Delivered by Kenji Murakami, Director of Safeguards, Division of Inspections in the

Department of Safeguards, IAEA)

Vladimir Shkolnik Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Susan Eisenhower President Emeritus, The Eisenhower Institute

Kanat Saudabayev Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the USA

Sam Nunn Co-chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Threat Initiative,

Former United States Senator (D-GA)

2002-2006 Highly Enriched Uranium

Down-Blending Project: The Makings of the Success by Ruslan Ibraev, Viktor Kossenko,

Olga Tyupkina, and Robert Schultz

Chapter 2

Grim Consequences of Nuclear Testing, and the Closing of the Semipalatinsk Test Site:

Foundations for Kazakhstan’s Firm Stand for a Nuclear-Weapons-Free Future

Chapter 3

Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation Cooperation with the United States:

A Global Model for a Safer World

Epilog

By Eni F.H. Faleomavaega Member of the U.S. Congress (D-American Samoa)

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