VIENNA: Kuwait’s Ambassador to Austria and Permanent Delegate to UN Organizations in Vienna Talal Al-Fassam said on Thursday Zionist entity has threatened to drop a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip in a loud incitement to use weapons of mass destruction.

In a statement delivered before the regular meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors, currently held in Vienna, Al-Fassam reiterated Kuwait’s strongest condemnation of Zionist aggression against Gaza. “Those criminal statements clearly violate international law and blatantly challenge the non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament treaty threatening peace and security,” he said.

The statement by the Zionist entity’ minister puts an end to the policy of “nuclear ambiguity” that occupation forces have followed over the past decades and confirms once again the reality of the international community’s fears regarding Zionist entity’s possession of weapons of mass destruction in its military arsenal, Al-Fassam explained.

To fulfill IAEA’s role in verifying and implementing the comprehensive safeguards system effectively and efficiently, the necessary steps must be taken to urge Zionist entity to immediately join NPT, he stressed. He also called for stopping crimes of genocide against the Palestinian people through a ceasefire so that humanitarian aid can be delivered to affected civilians, as well as providing protection for the defenseless Palestinian people, to hold Zionist entity accountable for the crimes committed against humanity in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories.

He confirmed that the Palestinian issue will be on top of Kuwait’s foreign policy agenda, as it supports the rights of the Palestinian people, foremost of which is the establishment of an independent state on the borders of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital, he said. — KUNA