President of Kazakhstan Receives CTBTO Executive Secretary Robert Floyd

PeopleDiplomats ♦ Published: August 27, 2021; 12:23 ♦ (Vindobona)

At a press conference organized by the Kazakh Foreign Ministry in Nur-Sultan, the executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), Robert Floyd, said on August 27 on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the closure of the Semipalatinsk test site that the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal inherited by Kazakhstan after the collapse of the Soviet Union has proved to be a visionary, wise and noble decision.

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (right) receives Robert Floyd (left), Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization. / Picture: © Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Republic of Austria

Congratulating the Australian diplomat on his election as Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), Kazakhstan President noted that the activities of the CTBTO is a matter of particular importance for Kazakhstan. …