NEGOTIATIONS ON CENTRAL ASIAN NUCLEAR-WEAPON-FREE-ZONE TREATY CONCLUDED

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                                                      30September 2002

NEGOTIATIONS ON CENTRAL ASIAN NUCLEAR-WEAPON-FREE-ZONE TREATY CONCLUDED

NEW YORK, 30 September (Department of Disarmament Affairs) -- Experts from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan met in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 25 to 27 September 2002, and successfully concluded the negotiations on the text of the Central Asian nuclear-weapon-free-zone treaty.  This is the result of five years of intensive work, which has been supported by the United Nations.

They agreed that the signing of the treaty should take place as soon as possible.

For further information contact:  Tsutomo Ishiguri, Director, United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific; tel: (212) 963-5580.

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