Qatar Calls for Enhancing International and Regional Cooperation in Construction and Operation of Nuclear Reactors

Petersburg, June 28 (QNA) - The State of Qatar has underlined that energy sources mix would contribute effectively to ensure sustainable development and safety power supply for the people. It noted that the nuclear energy can be a great source of energy when elements of safety and nuclear security have been internationally ensured . This came in a speech delivered by Ali Khalfan Al Mansouri, the Permanent Representative of Qatar to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in at the International Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century, currently in session in St. Petersburg. Al Mansouri stressed that the nuclear energy remains to be the most able option to respond to the escalating alternative energy sources. He added that the expansion of nuclear energy must be considered accurately as risks arising from error or lack of safety or disasters or terrorist acts would be disastrous and lead to a setback for expansion plans calling for security and nuclear safety as highest priority. Al Mansouri stressed the need for enhancing the international and regional cooperation in all phases of construction and operation of nuclear reactors, calling for activating all the related treaties and agreements of the peaceful use of nuclear energy and security foremost the non-proliferation Treaty and the Convention on nuclear Safety. (QNA)