ASTANA. Oct 4 (Interfax-Kazakhstan) - Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed a law to join the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, according to press reports.
Kazakhstan joined the convention with a reservation "that the country does not consider itself bound by the provisions contained in the first point of Article 24 of the International Convention for the Suppression for the Financing of Terrorism," the law reads.
The president introduced this amendment in an attempt to protect the country's national interests.
According to the first point of Article 24, any dispute between two or more States Parties concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention that cannot be settled through negotiation shall be submitted to arbitration. If within six months from the date of the request for arbitration, the parties are unable to agree on the organization of the arbitration, any one of those parties may refer the dispute to the International Court of Justice.