Cairo Urges UN to Inspect Israel's Atomic Facilities.

Cairo Urges UN to Inspect Israel's Atomic Facilities.

(Fars).Egypt's New Permanent Representative to the United Nations Mootaz Ahmadein Khalil called on the world body to inspect the nuclear facilities of Israel which pose a great danger to the region and the world's peace and security. Khalil made the remarks at a UN General Assembly meeting in New York on Tuesday. 

He told the General Assembly that any delay in addressing the issue of the Israeli nuclear arsenals "will affect the effectiveness of verification activities in the Middle East" and "the integrity of international efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation". Khalil stressed the importance of holding the NPT Review Conference in 2012, and said, "I would like also to thank the Secretary-General for emphasizing the importance of implementing the outcome of the 2010 NPT Review Conference." 

"I wish to highlight the particular importance Egypt attaches to the 2012 Conference on the Establishment of a Zone Free from Nuclear Weapons and All Other Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East. The outcome document of the Review Conference clearly mandated the Secretary General and the three depositary states of the NPT to take the necessary measures to convene the Conference, in consultation with the states of the region. We reiterate that the achievement of the universality of the NPT remains the basis of the multilateral disarmament regime. 

I would like to emphasize here that that the final document of the 2010 Review Conference cannot be compared to other documents emanating from other fora with limited participation and less authority," he underlined. Khalil warned that it could even lead to the failure of the next conference to review the NPT in 2015. Israel is believed to be the sole possessor of nuclear arms in the Middle East with over 200 ready-to-launch warheads in its stockpile.Hmmmm......Just give Obama another four years and together they'll get rid of them.

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Iran said on Tuesday it would take part in a proposed international conference in December on creating a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East. "The Islamic Republic of Iran now finally has decided to participate at the conference in Finland, in Helsinki, in December on a Middle East (nuclear) free zone," Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, told reporters in Brussels where he attended a seminar on nuclear non-proliferation. (Reuters)