From: Abe Rein (ARein@sorosny.org)
Date: Wed Aug 29 2001 - 16:13:31 EDT
KAZAKH PRESIDENT DECRIES SOVIET NUCLEAR TESTING IN HIS
REPUBLIC. Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbaev on 28 August
denounced the continuing impact of Soviet nuclear testing at the
Semipalatinsk test range in Kazakhstan, Russian and Western news
agencies reported. "Kazakhstan was the only country in the world where
an inhumane totalitarian regime carried out experiments without regard
for the ecology or health of the population, even though these problems
were known about," Nazarbaev said while presenting his book about the
problem, "The Epicenter of the World," to an audience that included
former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. At the same time, Nazarbaev
indicated that he "does not rule out" the possibility that low and
medium radioactive materials might eventually be imported into
Kazakhstan for permanent storage. PG
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