Achievement and Challenges of Anti-Nuclear Movement

The participants of the international scientific and practical conference «Achievments and Challenges of the Anti-Nuclear Movement to Overcome the Threats of an Atomic Catastrophe», which was held in Nur-Sultan, analyzed the activities of the anti-nuclear movement in Kazakhstan and the world over a thirty-year period.

Key stages of development were identified and a plan for the future was developed. Conference participants highlighted a significant role in the struggle for peace of the International Anti-Nuclear Movement «Nevada-Semey», the first public organization in Kazakhstan - the most authoritative and effective peacekeeping movement on the Planet. Not without reason, by decision of the UNESCO for its services to humanity, its activities were included in the World Register «Memory of the World». The Movement for the first time in the world applied a new model - the interaction of popular and parliamentary diplomacy - taking the first real step towards general disarmament, stopping nuclear tests at the largest landfills on the Planet. It should be noted that the Conference was organized as part of the International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures.

The Movement is ready to give a new impetus to its activities through parliamentarians of nuclear-weapon countries to build a nuclear-free world and establish principles of understanding and cooperation on issues of general disarmament. Prevention of a nuclear threat remains the «agenda» for all of humanity, as a number of countries are still striving to possess nuclear weapons. Through its activities, the Movement will continue to contribute to the elimination and complete abandonment of nuclear, bacteriological, chemical and other types of weapons, the formation of public opinion about the inadmissibility of further work on the creation and improvement of weapons of mass destruction.

However, given the current situation with the arms race in the world, it is too early to stop there, the struggle continues. Understanding that the fulfillment of tasks in the new conditions is not a matter of one day, the veterans of the Movement are preparing for themselves a worthy shift from young like-minded people. By the way, the Head of the Youth Organization «Nevada-Semey» of Al-Farabi KazNU Gulzhanat Tanabekova made a report on the activities of the youth organization.

At the new historical stage of its development, the Movement considers the main, priority and urgent goal to attract the youth of Kazakhstan and the entire Planet to the struggle for a world free from violence and threats, which will give a new powerful impetus to the planetary movement for a nuclear-free world.

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