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UN Secretary General supported initiative to declare Day of Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, supported the initiative of the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, on declaration August 29 - International Day of Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, General Director of the UN European branch, Sergey Ordzhonikidze, informed today at the press conference of III Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in Astana, the agency reports.

Astana. July 1. Kazakhstan today - The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, supported the initiative of the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, on declaration August 29 - International Day of Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, General Director of the UN European branch, Sergey Ordzhonikidze, informed today at the press conference of III Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in Astana, the agency reports.

"The United Nations Secretary General has supported the initiative of the President Nazarbayev to declare August 29 -International Day of Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons," S. Ordzhonikidze said.

As informed earlier, N. Nazarbayev initiated declaring August 29 - International day of Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. It is the day when the nuclear range was closed 18 years ago," N. Nazarbayev said.

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