http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/ United Nations Photo Copyright 2010 Department of Public Information, United Nations Thu, 23 May 2013 15:00:13 -0400 en-us http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?query=identifer:433/433533 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reads a statement to the media after visiting Ground Zero of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site. In his statement Mr. Ban urged all the leaders of the world, particularly nuclear weapon states, to work together with the United Nations to realize the aspiration and dream of a world free of nuclear weapons. Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:00:13 GMT http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?query=identifer:433/433533 http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?query=identifer:433/433532 A view of Semipalatinsk Test Site's ground zero in Kurchatov, Kazakhstan. Remote Semipalatinsk was once the Soviet Union's primary testing venue for nuclear weapons. Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:00:13 GMT http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?query=identifer:433/433532 http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?query=identifer:386/386625 Byrganym Aitimova, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the United Nations, introduces a draft resolution on the support for the rehabilitation of the Semipalansk region of Kazakhstan -- a former nuclear testing site in that country, closed in 1991. Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:00:13 GMT http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?query=identifer:386/386625 http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?query=identifer:433/433526 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) chats with Kazakhstan's Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev during a helicopter flight bound for Kurchatov, the Kazakh town home to the decommissioned Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:00:13 GMT http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?query=identifer:433/433526 http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?query=identifer:433/433527 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (second from right) visits the museum at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, once the primary testing venue for the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons, in Kurchatov, Kazakhstan. Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:00:13 GMT http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?query=identifer:433/433527 http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?query=identifer:433/433528 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon takes in the view from his window as he flies via helicopter to Kurchatov, the Kazakh town home to the decommissioned Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:00:13 GMT http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?query=identifer:433/433528 http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?query=identifer:433/433531 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) and his wife, Yoo Soon-taek (centre), are briefed at Ground Zero of the decommissioned Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site in Kurchatov, Kazakhstan. Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:00:13 GMT http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?query=identifer:433/433531 http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?query=identifer:483/483250 Joseph Deiss (centre), President of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly, chairs the Assembly’s informal meeting marking the 2nd International Day against Nuclear Tests and the 20th anniversary of the Closure of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Weapon Test Site in Kazakhstan. He is joined by, from left: Enkhetsetseg Ochir, Chair of the Assembly’s Second Committee and Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the UN; Ermek Kosherbayev, Deputy Governor of East Kazakhstan (Semipalatinsk region); and Sergio de Queiroz Duarte, UN High Representative for Disarmament. From right: Annika Thunborg, Spokesperson for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), and Geoffrey Shaw, Representative of the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:00:13 GMT http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?query=identifer:483/483250 http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?query=identifer:483/483247 A view inside the General Assembly’s informal meeting marking the 2nd International Day against Nuclear Tests and the 20th anniversary of the Closure of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Weapon Test Site in Kazakhstan. Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:00:13 GMT http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?query=identifer:483/483247 http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?query=identifer:483/483248 Alexander A. Pankin (left), Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, addresses the General Assembly’s informal meeting marking the 2nd International Day against Nuclear Tests and the 20th anniversary of the Closure of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Weapon Test Site in Kazakhstan. Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:00:13 GMT http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?query=identifer:483/483248