New York, Sep 23 2009 3:10PM
Disarmament can serve to boost trust and understanding among the world's nations, the leader of Turkmenistan told the General Assembly today, emphasizing that there can be no return to a Cold War-style global structure under which armament build-up was paramount.
Reductions of weapons arsenals and counteracting their distribution remains one of the top issues on the global agenda, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov told the Assembly's annual high-level debate.
There is no space in the current international system for Cold War-type arrangements where the "quantity and quality of armaments were almost the main criteria of influence and authority of States," he said.
"We are convinced: the less armaments in the world, the more stable and quiet would be its development, the more trust and understanding [there] would be among the countries and peoples," Mr. Berdimuhamedov told dozens of heads of State and government gathered in New York.
A treaty setting up the first nuclear weapon-free zone in Central Asia opened for signature in 2006 in the Kazakh city of Semipalatinsk, which endured over 400 atomic blasts, and it entered into force earlier this year.
That pact, the Turkmen leader said today, "proved to be consonant with aspirations of the majority of countries worldwide."
He proposed that an international conference, under UN auspices, be held on disarmament in Central Asia and the Caspian basin.
Sep 23 2009 3:10PM
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