Kazakhstan favors the soonest possible conclusion of international agreements to prevent arms race in space. "We highly praise Russia's and China's efforts to develop a draft agreement on preventing an arms race in space.

GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned on Wednesday that the world was "sleepwalking" toward nuclear proliferation and must urgently revive efforts to halt the spread of nuclear weapons.

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) Beijing, 28 March: China has always supported early negotiations on the signing of the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT), said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang here on Tuesday [28 March].