Nazarbayev warns about nuclear threat to humanity

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, speaking at the headquarters of the Carnegie Endowment Foundation, said the 21st century world "is slipping into a new nuclear age," which is potentially more dangerous and unpredictable.

According to Nazarbayev, one of the most serious problems now is the threat of nuclear terrorism and illicit trafficking in nuclear and radioactive materials, because the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons signed in 1968 does not fulfill its purpose and an unprecedented crisis of confidence among global players leads to the degradation of safeguards to prevent the use of nuclear weapons.

Kazakh President recalled the words of Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell, who wondered: "Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?"

The abolition of wars is the most difficult task of the civilization of mankind. But there is no alternative," TASS cited Nursultan Nazarbayev as saying.