Recently S. Toraigрyrov PSU participated in the National Youth online forum "World relay race to young people", which was held under the auspices of a prominent public figure and poet Olzhas Suleimenov, the founder of the movement for the closing of nuclear test site "Nevada - Semipalatinsk".

The forum was dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Decree "On closure of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site" signed by the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N.A Nazarbayev. The Forum was held in the online mode, the broadcast was carried out in the major universities of Kazakhstan.

Olzhas Suleimenov with his distinctive speech told about the era of great change, when in the period from 1989 to 1991, he and his colleagues succeeded at the cost of enormous efforts the closure of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, and before the signing of the presidential decree was prevented 11 of the 18 explosions this year.

Olzhas Suleimenov was the heart of the movement which had unified more than 2 million Kazakhstani those years for the sake of the one great purpose. At the test site from 1949 to 1989 was carried out 468 (!) nuclear explosions. Only in August 29, 1991 after the signing of the historic decree by the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N.A. Nazarbayev, Kazakh steppe which was pained with monstrous explosions could breathe easily.

After closing the test site in Semipalatinsk began to operate an international moratorium on nuclear testing. At that time, Russia also had stopped their nuclear tests on the island Novaya Zemlya. In 1992, the USA had closed their test site in Nevada, followed by them China closed the Lop Nor test site and France closed test site at Mururoa Atoll in 1998.

Remembering milestones of that difficult stage of our common history, Olzhas Suleimenov has paid special attention to the fact that the relevance of the movement "Nevada - Semipalatinsk" is not decreased today, opposite, has acquired a new meaning a quarter of a century later.

Olzhas Suleimenov emphasised that the new generation of young people who take care about the fate of their Homeland and of the whole Earth, should by at all cost create a nuclear-free world in which none of the powers will not have such a terrible weapon.

Olzhas Suleimenov calls to keep a deterrent power prerogative by the United Nations, leaving the organization a small amount of filler with a small capacity as guarantor of international safety and forces parity.

Forum ended with a unifying gesture, when all the participants stood up, raising their open hand as a symbol of peace, without aggression and five closed test sites.