![Photo: (left to right) Chairman of the Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev; President Nazarbayev; Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), Lassina Zerbo. Credit: www.kazembassy.org.uk](https://www.international-press-syndicate.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/astana_conference_inauguration.jpg)
INPS-IDN reported on an international conference on ‘Building a nuclear-weapon-free world’ in Kazakh capital Astana on August 29 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of closing the Soviet nuclear test site. The conference was as co-hosted by the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Parliamentarians for Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (PNND). The conference endorsed a 10-point Declaration titled: ‘The Astana Vision: From a Radioactive Haze to a Nuclear-Weapon Free World’.