Director General for Peace and Security Affairs of the Iranian Foreign Ministry Asadollah Eshraq Jahromi confirmed his country’s rejection of the draft resolution of the Tenth Conference of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, expressing his protest against the unbalanced text and some issues related to the Middle East region.
He emphasized Iran’s principled position on the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone, noting that the text of this project was prepared in accordance with a non-transparent and non-comprehensive process. oversight by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
He pointed out that “the text of the draft failed to preserve the entire consensus reached on the Middle East issue at previous review conferences, in accordance with the desire of America, which refrained from implementing it, and Israel, with the support of the United States, deliberately obstruct serious international efforts to denuclearize the region” and other types of weapons of mass destruction.
He stressed that the final decisions should not increase marked discrimination in the provisions of the treaty by imposing additional obligations on the non-nuclear-weapon states, while the nuclear-weapon states continue to disavow their obligations and commitments to the non-nuclear-weapon states. . -proliferation, which has led to the lack of any progress in this context, Iran is making serious progress in its support for the harmony of the Treaty on the Limitation of Nuclear Weapons in all its components, calling for the rebalancing of this international treaty through the comprehensive, effective and immediate implementation of its obligations on nuclear disarmament.
Source: El Nashra