Kazakh Parliament Backs Biological Weapons Pact

The Kazakh Parliament has approved the international treaty banning the development, stockpiling and use of biological weapons, ITAR-Tass reported today (see GSN, Aug. 21, 2006).

Joining the Biological Weapons Convention “will become another proof of Kazakhstan’s constructive policy in nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction,” lawmakers said.

President Nursultan Nazarbayev must now endorse the parliamentary action to ratify the treaty (ITAR-Tass, April 17).

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