UN chief to visit Soviet nuclear testing ground in Kazakhstan | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon plans to visit the Soviet-era Semipalatinsk nuclear test facility during his visit to Kazakhstan next month, the United Nations Development Program said on Tuesday.
‘During his visit the UN secretary general… will visit the Semipalatinsk region and especially the territory of the former nuclear testing ground,’ the UNDP’s Kazakhstan office said in a statement.
Ban is due to visit the vast Central Asian country on April 6-7.”