Your Excellencies,
Distinguished Ambassadors and heads of missions,
Ladies and gentlemen,
Our meetings on the New Year’s Eve have already become a good tradition that provides opportunity to inform you, to exchange views on the current situation in our country, on the diplomatic efforts to strengthen the relations with countries you represent.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs categorically repudiates certain news media reports alleging Kazakhstan’s connection to a possible deal to supply uranium to Iran and considers them groundless insinuations damaging the reputation of our country.
As is known, Kazakhstan has voluntarily renounced the world’s fourth largest nuclear and missile arsenal, shut down the world’s second largest Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, and is one of the recognized leaders of the global process of disarmament and nonproliferation.
