ASTANA. Nov 20 (Interfax-AVN) - Kazakhstan has proposed to adjust the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to the new situation, Kazakh State Secretary Kanat Saudabayev said in a speech delivered at the plenary session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Valencia.
"The further proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the aspiration of international terrorist organizations to acquire and use them have become the most serious threat to the planet's security. That is why, considering the NPT as the core of the nuclear non-proliferation regime, we propose to adjust it to the new situation through developing efficient measures of influencing the states that have nuclear weapons and that act outside the NPT framework and preventing states from leaving the treaty," the Kazakh presidential press service quoted Saudabayev as saying in a statement on Thursday.
"Effort to gradually scrap the existing WMD arsenals, the responsibility for which is on nuclear powers themselves, is an important factor of an efficient strategy of preventing WMD proliferation," he said.