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Iran to UN agencies in Vienna: NPT is discriminatory
Vienna, March 14, IRNA – Iran’s permanent envoy to the United Nations organizations in Vienna, Austria, Ali-Asghar Soltaniyeh said Friday that the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is discriminatory both in nature and in implementation.
Soltaniyeh is Iran's ambassador to the UN organizations in Vienna, including the UN nuclear watchdog.
Addressing a day-long conference on NPT, the diplomat said the fact that world states were divided, in NPT, into two groups of countries that have and have not nuclear arms was the discriminatory feature of the treaty.
He added that the discriminatory part of the treaty was in its contains, particularly its Articles I, IV and VI.
Calling for reconsideration of the treaty, Soltaniyeh stressed the need for adding a “timetable” in Article VI for member states to fulfil their obligations based on the treaty.
According to the Article VI, “Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a Treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.”
Moreover, it was said in the Article I that each nuclear state “undertakes not to transfer to any recipient whatsoever nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or control over such weapons or explosive devices directly, or indirectly; and not in any way to assist, encourage, or induce any non-nuclear weapon state.”
Soltaniyeh said that some of the nuclear states have blatantly defied Article I by supplying nuclear equipment to the Zionist regime.
He stressed that Iran is to present its proposals to reconsider NPT articles in a conference which is to be held in May on the treaty’s reconsideration./end
Soltaniyeh is Iran's ambassador to the UN organizations in Vienna, including the UN nuclear watchdog.
Addressing a day-long conference on NPT, the diplomat said the fact that world states were divided, in NPT, into two groups of countries that have and have not nuclear arms was the discriminatory feature of the treaty.
He added that the discriminatory part of the treaty was in its contains, particularly its Articles I, IV and VI.
Calling for reconsideration of the treaty, Soltaniyeh stressed the need for adding a “timetable” in Article VI for member states to fulfil their obligations based on the treaty.
According to the Article VI, “Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a Treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.”
Moreover, it was said in the Article I that each nuclear state “undertakes not to transfer to any recipient whatsoever nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or control over such weapons or explosive devices directly, or indirectly; and not in any way to assist, encourage, or induce any non-nuclear weapon state.”
Soltaniyeh said that some of the nuclear states have blatantly defied Article I by supplying nuclear equipment to the Zionist regime.
He stressed that Iran is to present its proposals to reconsider NPT articles in a conference which is to be held in May on the treaty’s reconsideration./end
