Additional Protocol Becomes Law in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed a law approving the nation’s Additional Protocol to its nuclear safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the presidential press service reported yesterday (see GSN, Feb. 5).

“The purpose for signing the protocol is to ensure transparency of nuclear-related activities in the country, facilitate the improvement of the international security system, consolidate this country’s status as a nuclear-free state and demonstrate [the] stability of Kazakhstan’s policy in the area of nonproliferation of nuclear weapons,” according to a parliamentary report (Interfax, Feb. 19).

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