Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone: Greater Security for the Region?

... of India and Pakistan in the SCO will hardly threaten CANWFZ but the media would definitely discuss this process in a way that the Central Asian countries view as negative. The CANWFZ Treaty is one of the few frameworks involving participation of all Central Asian states. 5. CANWFZ will obviously improve regional security and the nuclear nonproliferation regime, but Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan still face grave ecological problems related to uranium tailings dumps containing buried radioactive, toxic and other non-recyclable ...