Implementing arrangement between the Department of energy of the United States of America and the Ministry of industry and new technologies of the Republic of Kazakhstan for cooperation in the field of nuclear material safeguards and security (on October 14, 2011)

IMPLEMENTING ARRANGEMENT
 
between
 
THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
 
and
 
THE MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN
FOR COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFEGUARDS AND SECURITY

The Department of Energy of the United States of America (USDOE) and the Ministry of Industry and Naw Technologies of the Republic of Kazakhstan (MINT RK), hereinafter referred to as the «Parties»,

Having a mutual interest that nuclear material is managed worldwide in the most secure way, in full compliance with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons of July 1, 1968,and the safeguards system of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), including the Additional Protocol;

Sharing the view that nuclear material safeguards and security should apply worldwide and meet the highest possible standards;

Desiring to take all necessary steps to prevent dissemination of weapons of mass destruction and the material, technologies and know-how related to them, as well as nuclear terrorism; Noting that USDOE has launched the Next Generation Safeguards Initiative (NGSI);

Noting that MINT RK intends to participate in fulfillingthe objectives of NGSI, building upon MINT RK's longstanding experience withlAEA safeguards;

Taking note of the Agreement between the Department of Defense of the United States of America and the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning Control, Accounting and Physical Protection of Nuclear Material to Promote the Prevention of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation of December 13, 1993, as amended and extended (the «MPC&A Agreement»), which is subject to the provisions of the Agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Destruction of Silo Launchers of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, Emergency Response, and the Prevention of Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction of December 13, 1993, as extended and amended (the «CTR Agreement»); and

Noting that pursuant to paragraph 1 of Article II of the MPC&A Agreement, responsibility for entering into and implementing the activities under the MPC&A Agreementhas been delegated to USDOE as the designated agent of the U.S. Department of Defense, and to the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan (now to MINTRKas related to re-organization of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR) and the transfer ofMEMR's functions in the nuclear sactor to MINT RK) as Kazakhstan's Executive Agent of the CTR Agreement,

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1 - Definitions

As used in this Implementing Arrangement: