Open Nuclear Networkのオラミデ・サミュエル氏が司会を務めたこのサイドイベントは、カザフスタン国連常駐代表部、国連軍縮部、国連軍縮研究所(UNIDIR)、核脅威イニシアティブが共催した。会合でより根本的に問われたのは、安全保障環境が厳しさを増す時代に、地域として核を自制する枠組みが持ちこたえられるのか、ということだった。
カザフスタンにとって、その答えはセミパラチンスクから始まる。
Yerzhan Ashikbayev, Kazakhstan’s First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
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