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Fri, 06/11/2010 - 12:52
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Russia shares call on Israel to join NPT - ambassador.
VIENNA, June 11 (Itar-Tass) - Russia shares the call on Israel to join
the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and put all its facilities
under safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),
Governor from Russia Ambassador Grigory Berdennikov said at a session of
the IAEA Board of Governors that ended here on Thursday.
He noted that Israel remains the only country in the Middle East
region that is outside the NPT framework. Israel's joining this treaty, he
said, "will promote the regime of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons,
creation of a zone free from weapons of mass destruction and its delivery
means in the Middle East and the strengthening of peace in the region and
all over the world."
"Russia consistently supports the NPT universalisation, including in
its status of one of depositories of this treaty," the RF official
continued. "The NPT remains 'a cornerstone' of the international security
system containing the threat of spread of nuclear weapons and ensuring
advancement on the path of nuclear disarmament and development of wide
international cooperation in the sphere of peaceful uses of atomic power.
Russia also consistently urges the creation of a zone free of weapons of
mass destruction and its delivery means in the Middle East," according to
the ambassador.
The issue of Israel's nuclear potential has for the first time over
many years been put on the agenda of the IAEA Board of Governors because a
corresponding resolution had been approved at last year's IAEA General
Conference in which the agency's director general was charged with the
task t o prepare a report on this matter. This report will be presented at
September's session of the IAEA Board of Governors.
At the same time a number of Western states believes that the
discussion of this issue is an untimely and counterproductive business
against the background of more important tasks the agency is facing, in
particular, ensuring the fulfilment of the safeguards agreements with Iran
and Syria.
the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and put all its facilities
under safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),
Governor from Russia Ambassador Grigory Berdennikov said at a session of
the IAEA Board of Governors that ended here on Thursday.
He noted that Israel remains the only country in the Middle East
region that is outside the NPT framework. Israel's joining this treaty, he
said, "will promote the regime of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons,
creation of a zone free from weapons of mass destruction and its delivery
means in the Middle East and the strengthening of peace in the region and
all over the world."
"Russia consistently supports the NPT universalisation, including in
its status of one of depositories of this treaty," the RF official
continued. "The NPT remains 'a cornerstone' of the international security
system containing the threat of spread of nuclear weapons and ensuring
advancement on the path of nuclear disarmament and development of wide
international cooperation in the sphere of peaceful uses of atomic power.
Russia also consistently urges the creation of a zone free of weapons of
mass destruction and its delivery means in the Middle East," according to
the ambassador.
The issue of Israel's nuclear potential has for the first time over
many years been put on the agenda of the IAEA Board of Governors because a
corresponding resolution had been approved at last year's IAEA General
Conference in which the agency's director general was charged with the
task t o prepare a report on this matter. This report will be presented at
September's session of the IAEA Board of Governors.
At the same time a number of Western states believes that the
discussion of this issue is an untimely and counterproductive business
against the background of more important tasks the agency is facing, in
particular, ensuring the fulfilment of the safeguards agreements with Iran
and Syria.
