ShareNEW YORK/VIENNA: The lack of monitoring on some nuclear facilities in the Middle East is unacceptable and supervising facilities is a global obligation to create a region free of nuclear weapons, said a top Kuwait diplomat.
Delivering his speech late on 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 Zionist entity’s regime in the region, which did not join the NPT, expressing condemnation of the recent comment by a Zionist entity minister who suggested the use of nuclear weapons in the heinous assault on the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, Al-Bannai reflected on 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.
Kuwait on Tuesday slammed recent remarks by a Zionist entity minister over the potential launch of nuclear attacks against the Gaza Strip. Citing a global treaty banning nuclear weapons tests, known as the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBTO), Kuwait’s permanent delegate to the UN and international organizations Talal Al-Fassam told the treaty’s Preparatory Commission that his country backs the “full implementation” of the treaty that was formed in 1996. Commending the efforts of CTBTO, Executive Secretary Robert Floyd urged countries that have yet to commit to the CTBTO to join the list of signatories in a bid to give the accord more credence, which the Kuwaiti diplomat said was essential in eliminating the use of nuclear weapons.
In response to an Zionist entity minister’s comments over the possibility of staging nuclear attacks against the Gaza Strip, he slammed such words as “blatant violations” of international laws and principles, saying it “leaves no doubt” over Zionist entity’s “malicious tendencies” towards the Palestinians. He went on to deplore in equal measure the “massacres” committed by Zionist forces against the Palestinians, in addition to the targeting of healthcare and educational facilities, calling for an immediate ceasefire and subsequent delivery of aid for the Palestinians. — KUNA
