Kuwait Representative To UN: Monitoring Mideast Nuclear Facilities Obligation

11/14/2023 3:05:57 AM

(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) New York, Nov 14 (KUNA) -- The lack of monitoring on some nuclear facilities in the Middle East is unacceptable, supervising facilities is a global obligation to create a region free of nuclear weapons, said a top Kuwait diplomat.
Delivering his speech late Monday to the fourth session of the conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction, Kuwait Permanent Representative to the United Nations Headquarters in New York, Ambassador Tareq Al-Bannai said that it was unacceptable that some nuclear facilities in the region went without monitoring.
He affirmed to the conference, which would continue until November 17, that lack of monitoring caused mistrust and threatens the security of the Middle East region and the world.
Establishing a Middle East region free of Weapons of Mass Destruction is not an easy task, acknowledged Al-Bannai, who stressed that it was the collective responsibility of the 191 countries signatories to Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and its review conference of 1995.
The Kuwaiti diplomat touched on the lack of commitment on part of the Israeli occupation regime in the region, which did not join the NPT, expressing condemnation of the recent comment by an Israeli minister who suggested the use of nuclear weapons in the heinous assault on the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, Al-Bannai reflected the State of Kuwait's welcoming of any efforts for disarmament and preventing the selling of nuclear weapons, expressing stern commitment in this regard.
He expressed disappoint for the failure of the conferences to review the NPT in 2015 and 2020, calling for more efforts to rid the world from nuclear arms. (end) ast

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