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Kazakhstan: President Signs U.S. Threat Reduction Agreement Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed into law yesterday an extension of the U.S.-Kazakh agreement on preventing nuclear proliferation and destroying former Soviet ballistic missile silos, Interfax reported yesterday (see GSN, May 15). The United States is expected to provide $6 million this year to destroy six former Soviet ICBM silos inside Kazakhstan. U.S. officials have also agreed to provide specialists and equipment and to train Kazakh workers for the project, according to Interfax. In exchange, Kazakhstan has agreed to provide tax and custom privileges to contractors involved in destroying the silos, Interfax reported (Interfax/BBC Worldwide Monitoring, June 3). According to information exchanged under the START I agreement, Kazakhstan has destroyed all silos that once held SS-18 and SS-19 ICBMs, but six silos used for testing remained at the end of January (Greg Webb, GSN, June 4).
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