‘Zionist regime must be compelled to dismantle nuclear weapons’ http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsList.aspx?t=allnews

The deputy head of the Iranian mission to the United Nations has said that the Zionist regime must be compelled to dismantle its nuclear weapons program. Es’haq Ale-Habib made the remarks at the UN General Assembly meeting on the International Day against Nuclear Testing in New York on Friday.Diplomats participating in the meeting called on all Annex 2 countries to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) so that the treaty can come into force.

Israel possesses a nuclear arsenal and has not signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and therefore it should be compelled to sign the treaty, Ale-Habib stated.He also said since the catastrophic atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which was conducted by the United States on August 6 and 9, 1945, the eradication of nuclear weapons has been one of the main objectives of the international community.Ale-Habib went on to say that several regional and international treaties have been signed over the past decade to this end.

Most of the treaties are on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation and have been signed in line with efforts to create zones free of nuclear weapons, he added. However, he said, despite these efforts, nuclear weapons states’ failure to abide by their commitments laid out in Article VI of the NPT has wrecked the prospects of achieving this goal. Elsewhere in his remarks, Ale-Habib said that the Islamic Republic, as a signatory to the CTBT, believes that nuclear disarmament should be placed on the agenda of the international community and that nuclear tests, with any incentive, should be banned.

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