KAZAKHSTAN in the United Nations.

Kazakhstan, the largest country in Central Asia, has completed non-permanent membership in the UN Security Council. For two years, the country has made every effort to strengthen the position of the Organization, as the global political regulator of security.

Since the collapse of the USSR, Kazakhstan has been in a difficult situation. The "inheritance" of the Union automatically turned the republic into one of the largest nuclear powers of the world. For 1991, Kazakhstan owned the fourth largest nuclear power in the world. However, already in 1992, the republic decided to curtail the nuclear program and completely abandon possession of nuclear weapons. Becoming the first (and so far the only) country in the world that voluntarily renounced the weapon of influence.

Since then, Kazakhstan on the world stage has been pursuing a policy of peaceful settlement of any conflicts and the maximum expansion of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Being in the UN Security Council under the chairmanship (January 2018), Kazakhstan held a special meeting on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), confidence-building measures. A unique statement was made by the chairman of the UN Security Council. It noted that a comprehensive conflict prevention strategy should include early warning, preventive deployment, mediation, peacekeeping, non-proliferation, accountability measures, and post-conflict peace-building. Along with these issues, the document includes for the first time the problems of the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. This is the uniqueness of the adopted document.

At the same time, Kazakhstan was one of the initiators of the transformation of the United Nations into a more consistent, integrated and efficient structure, which should more effectively use the tools of conflict prevention and preventive diplomacy. Including through cooperation with regional and subregional organizations.

The inclusion of the last point in the statement of the Security Council President demonstrated the recognition by the UN of the degree of influence on the political processes of various regional associations, including developing countries that are not in the G20.

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