SEMIPALATINSK NUCLEAR TEST SITE, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Standing at the former Soviet arch exam site, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pronounced on Tuesday he would press arch powers at a Washington limit subsequent week to throw all their atomic weapons.
The U.N. arch pronounced there was great reason to hold the long-standing U.N. idea would in the future be satisfied among confidence over a new U.S.-Russian vital arms agreement and a arch process examination by Washington, that he praised.
Ban, on a Central Asian tour, flew by helicopter to the site in Kazakhstan where the former Soviet Union carried out scarcely 500 windy and subterraneous arch exam explosions in between 1949 and 1989.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev sealed the site, right away called "Ground Zero," in 1991 as the Soviet Union pennyless up in to eccentric states.
He got absolved of some-more than 100 arch warheads commissioned in Kazakhstan and an general covenant creation Central Middle East a arch weapons-free section was after sealed at the site.
"Now we have a great reason to hold that the guarantee of Semipalatinsk -- the extermination of arch weapons -- will turn reality," Ban said, station on a dais surrounded by a immeasurable grassland steppe still dotted with rags of winter snow.
He remarkable U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev would pointer a new agreement on Thursday serve shortening their countries" vital arms stockpiles.
Obama on Tuesday denounced a arch viewpoint examination underneath that the United States will not rise new atomic weapons or make make make use of of existent ones opposite non-nuclear states in great station with the arch Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
"I cannot think of a some-more wise -- even touching -- place to listen to this news," Ban said, describing his helicopter float over the site as a "very sobering experience."
"At subsequent week"s arch security limit ... I will urge the leaders of the Russian Federation and the United States, and alternative arch states leaders, to desert all arch weapons," he declared.
"Here currently in Semipalatinsk, I call on all arch weapons states to follow fit of Kazakhstan."
Crumbling petrify towers and anti-blast walls were the usually perceivable stays of the Semipalatinsk exam site as Ban addressed a small entertainment of U.N. and Kazakh officials, together with Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev.
Kazakh officials contend about 1.5 million people suffered earthy or mental repairs as a outcome of the arch tests that were carried out. The United Nations is assisting to purify up the decay of the soil, rivers and lakes.
(Editing by Andrew Dobbie)
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