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Five nuclear powers signed a new Protocol to the existing Central Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone (CANWFZ) Treaty in New York on Tuesday.

• 08 мая 2014, 23:30

Kazakhstan abstained from voting at the UN General Assembly and Ukraine sent it a diplomatic note.

• 30 марта 2014, 12:16

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has had a number of bilateral meetings during the Nuclear Security Summit in the Hague.

• 25 марта 2014, 18:59

Israel unveiled plans Friday for more than 1,800 new settler homes in a move the Palestinians said was aimed at forcing Washington to abandon its Middle East peace drive.

• 12 января 2014, 14:51

According to Kazakhstan ex-Permanent Representative in the UN Senator Byrganym Aitimova, Kazakhstan will not send any peacekeepers to Syria.

• 23 декабря 2013, 16:21

World Press Photo exhibition 2013 has started in Astana. It is held in Central Asia for the first time.

• 11 декабря 2013, 18:52

International aid agency Oxfam on Tuesday launched a "12 Days of Giving" appeal to help destitute Syrian refugee families in Jordan and Lebanon survive the region's harsh winter months.

• 03 декабря 2013, 13:33

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev told the Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan Jan Kubis that Kazakhstan was ready to continue providing assistance to Afghanistan.

• 28 ноября 2013, 19:30

The permanent representative of Kazakhstan to the UN has been appointed.

• 26 ноября 2013, 18:01

Inspectors from the UN's nuclear watchdog arrived in Tokyo Wednesday to monitor marine pollution near Fukushima as China demanded Japan provide "accurate" information on how it is handling the crisis.

• 06 ноября 2013, 17:54

The Syrian regime will not attend a proposed Geneva peace conference if the aim is for President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power, the country's information minister said Monday.

• 05 ноября 2013, 14:30

Horn of Africa pirates have raked in up to $413 million in ransom since 2005, with most of it used to finance "global scale" criminal operations.

• 04 ноября 2013, 11:08

The US government has guaranteed the UN that it is not intercepting its secret communications, a spokesman said Wednesday while not being drawn on reports of past spying.

• 31 октября 2013, 18:00

The UN-Arab League envoy for Syria says peace talks are in doubt unless a "credible opposition" takes part, overcoming rifts among its factions.

• 21 октября 2013, 12:15

The United Nations warned Monday that inspectors face a year-long mission of unprecedented danger in trying to destroy Syria's chemical weapons arsenal, as rebels launched a major offensive.

• 08 октября 2013, 18:13

The UN atomic agency said Friday it is sending a team from October 14-21 to review Japan's progress cleaning up areas around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.

• 04 октября 2013, 18:13

International experts preparing to destroy Syria's chemical weapons arsenal said they had made "encouraging" progress Thursday and expect to carry out on-site inspections within days.

• 04 октября 2013, 17:40

A disarmament team is to arrive Tuesday in Damascus on a mission to destroy Syria's chemical arsenal, a day after UN experts wrapped up their investigation of alleged gas attacks.

• 01 октября 2013, 18:24

An imminent scientific summary on climate change will serve as an "alarm clock moment" for the world.

• 28 сентября 2013, 10:19

Iran's newly elected moderate president said Thursday he hoped for the freedom of more prisoners after the recent release of prominent reformists.

• 28 сентября 2013, 07:00