VZCZCXRO5360
PP RUEHAST
DE RUEHAST #0055 1921237
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P R 111237Z JUL 06
FM USOFFICE ASTANA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 0143
INFO RUEHTA/AMEMBASSY ALMATY 0128
RUEHMO/AMEMBASSY MOSCOW 0021
RUEHLO/AMEMBASSY LONDON 0001
RUEHFR/AMEMBASSY PARIS 0001
RUEHRO/AMEMBASSY ROME 0001
RUEHOT/AMEMBASSY OTTAWA 0001
RUEHRL/AMEMBASSY BERLIN 0001
RUEHKO/AMEMBASSY TOKYO 0003
RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING 0011
RUEHBY/AMEMBASSY CANBERRA 0001
RUEHUNV/USMISSION UNVIE VIENNA 0001
RUEHNO/USMISSION USNATO 0004
RUEHBS/USEU BRUSSELS 0001
RUEHAST/USOFFICE ASTANA 0145

UNCLAS ASTANA 000055 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
ISN/WMDT 
T: TIM KATSAPIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: MCAP PINR PINS PTER KZ
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE ON GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM 
DELIVERED IN ASTANA 
 
REF: STATE 110160 
 
¶1.  (SBU)  Astana Econoff, together with Russian Deputy Chief of 
Mission Sergey Kopeyko, delivered reftel demarche to Deputy 
Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov on July 7.  Econoff and 
Kopeyko jointly expressed hope that Astana will support the 
Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. 
 
 
 
¶2.  (SBU)  Abdrakhmanov said that GOK will support the 
Initiative and promised to seek an appropriate way to express 
its position following the announcement.  He stressed that 
Kazakhstan will "always support" such measures, and added that 
GOK may promote the Initiative within the framework of CICA. 
(Note: CICA, the Conference on Interaction and Confidence 
Building Measures in Asia, is a regional security forum launched 
by President Nazarbayev in 1992 with seventeen members from Asia 
and the Middle East.  The U.S. is an observer.  End note.) 
 
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