Kazakh Parliament ratifies agreement with IAEA
Interfax
February 1, 2007
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The Senate, the upper chamber of the Kazakh Parliament, has adopted a bill ratifying an additional protocol to Kazakhstan's agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency on guarantees related to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The document has already been submitted to the head of state for signing. Parliament's lower chamber ratified it late last year.

The protocol was signed in Vienna on February 6, 2004, the lower chamber's committee for international affairs, defense and security said.

"The protocol is aimed at ensuring the openness of nuclear projects in the republic, contributing to efforts to bolster the international security system, strengthening the status of our republic as a non- nuclear state, and demonstrating the stability of Kazakhstan's policy in the area of the nuclear weapons non-proliferation regime," the committee said.

Ninety countries have signed the protocol, which has already come into force in 62 of them.