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The resolution was drafted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia (CANWFZ) was opened for signing on 8 September 2006 and came into force on 21 March 2009.
Under the Treaty, its member states – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan – undertake not to research, develop, manufacture, stockpile, acquire, possess or have any control over any nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device, not to seek or receive assistance in any of the above, or assist in or encourage such actions. They also pledge not to carry out any nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion.
To formalise the status of this nuclear-weapon-free zone (NWFZ) treaty, the five states that officially possess nuclear weapons – Russia, Britain, China, the United States and France – should sign a protocol on security safeguards to the CANWFZ member states, which seals their pledge not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against the NWFZ and its member countries. Similar practice has been applied with regard to the other nuclear-weapon-free zones, such as the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Southeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty.
The signing of the Protocol to the CANWFZ Treaty will be Russia’s additional and substantial contribution to strengthening the nuclear non-proliferation regime.
The Russian Government discussed and approved a resolution to this effect at its meeting on 28 April 2014.