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  • March 2 Oslo Events Release

    Nazarbayev Center Presents The ATOM Project at International Civil Society Forum in Oslo OSLO, March 2, 2013 – On March 2, a Kazakhstan delegation, including Honorary Ambassador of the ATOM Project Karipbek Kuyukov, participated in the International Civil Society Forum in Oslo organized by the non-governmental organization ICAN (International Campaign for the abolition of nuclear…

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  • Oslo Conference Comments By Kanat Saudabayev

    Statement by Kanat Saudabayev, Director of the Nazarbayev Center, at the International Conference on the Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear Weapons Oslo, March 4-5, 2013 Dear Mr. Chairman, Dear Colleagues, Allow me to thank the organizers for inviting me to this conference, the importance and urgency of which is hard to overestimate. This conference covers an…

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  • Atom Project Hon. Amd. Karipbek Kuyukov’s Oslo Conference Comments

    Dear ladies and gentlemen, participants of the conference I am immeasurably grateful to the organizers of this conference for giving me today the opportunity to tell you about the destiny of my country, which is eager to secure the world peace through nuclear disarmament. I was born in Kazakhstan, in a little village called Egindybulak,…

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  • Oslo Exhibit English Press Release

    On March 4-5, a delegation from Kazakhstan led by the Chairman of the Commission on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction under the President of Kazakhstan, Director of the Nazarbayev Center Kanat Saudabayev will take part in the International Conference “Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear Weapons” organized by the Government of Norway. More than 100 representatives…

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  • The Atom Project Presents Two Exhibits: “A Lesson In Peace: Dismantling The Soviet Nuclear Weapons Program In Kazakhstan” And “I Have Only My Heart To Hold You: The Art Of Karipbek Kuyukov” In Washington, DC, December 10-12, 2012

    WASHINGTON, DC, December, 10, 2012 – In August 2012, Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev addressed a major international parliamentary conference in Astana and launched The ATOM Project as a vehicle to generate global popular support for the permanent end to nuclear weapons testing and, ultimately, the abolition of nuclear weapons. The ATOM Project is a new…

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  • The ATOM Project: A New Initiative to Achieve a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World

    By Roman Vassilenko and Martin Sieff The ATOM Project is a new international initiative to build global support for a permanent end to nuclear weapons testing and the total abolition of nuclear weapons. It was launched at a parliamentary assembly in Astana, Kazakhstan on August 29, 2012, the UN International Day Against Nuclear Tests, established…

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  • The Nazarbayev Center and The ATOM Project to Be Presented in Geneva

    ASTANA, November 12, 2012 The Nazarbayev Center and The ATOM Project will be presented in Geneva on November 19 and will launch two exhibitions, “A Lesson in Peace: Dismantling the Soviet Nuclear Weapons Program in Kazakhstan” and “I Have Only My Heart to Hold You: The Art of Karipbek Kuyukov” which will be open from…

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  • The ATOM Project Sponsors “I Have Only My Heart to Hold You: The Art of Karipbek Kuyukov”

    The Hague, October 29 – November 5. ASTANA, October 29, 2012 – The ATOM Project is sponsoring the art show, “I Have Only My Heart to Hold You: The Art of Karipbek Kuyukov,” at The Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Johan de Wittlaan 32, 2517 JR The Hague, The Netherlands, from October 29 to…

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  • The Atom Project is entered into the U.S. Congressional Record

    SPEECH OF HON. ENI F. H. FALEOMAVAEGA OF AMERICAN SAMOA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to enter into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD my recent speech before the international conference From a Nuclear Test Ban to a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World held in Astana, Kazakhstan on August 29, 2012. For historical purposes,…

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  • THE ATOM PROJECT LAUNCHES IN SUPPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS’ INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST NUCLEAR TESTING

    ASTANA, August 29 – The Atom Project launches in advance of the UN-sanctioned International Day Against Nuclear Tests and the international conference “From a Nuclear Test Ban to a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World” to be held in Astana & Semey, Kazakhstan, August 27-30, 2012. Conference participants include parliamentarians and leaders from scores of countries and activists from…

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