Sixty-seventh General Assembly First Committee 9th Meeting (PM)
AS FIRST COMMITTEE BEGINS FOCUSED DEBATE ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS, NATIONAL POSITIONS CONVERGE ON PRINCIPLES, CLASSIC DIFFERENCES PERSIST ON PRACTICAL ENFORCEMENT

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Statements

The Non-Aligned Movement, said the representative of Indonesia on its behalf, remained concerned, however, by the strategic defence doctrines of the nuclear-armed States and of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that set out the rationale for using those weapons.  The fulfilment of nuclear disarmament obligations should not be conditional, and a universal legally binding instrument on negative security assurances to all non-nuclear-armed States must be concluded.

ENRIQUE ROMAN-MOREY (Peru), speaking on behalf of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR),said it was hard to explain why, 20 years after the cold war, there was massive military spending and new investments in modernizing nuclear weapons, and the speaker called on the nuclear-weapon-possessors to cut spending and invest instead in social and economic development.

Right of Reply The representative of Syria, speaking in exercise of the right of reply, said the European Union had named his country in its statement, but had ignored the unique nuclear arsenal in the region — Israel’s — aimed at his country. Members of the European Union had even helped to build up that arsenal, showing its alliance with Israel. Israel had attacked Syria’s territory and destroyed a building that had nothing to do with nuclear capability. That aggression should have resulted in condemnation, especially because the IAEA deemed that the destruction of that site was unilateral.He said his country had been one of the first to have joined the NPT, in 1968, before European Union members. His country also supported the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in its region and had presented a draft to the Security Council to that effect. However, it was met with opposition from a nuclear-weapon country and had remained “in the drawer” since. Israel had not joined the NPT, and the European Union knew that better than anyone. In fact, the Union had helped Israel’s military programme, which was a threat. Regarding the French regime, he recalled a reference last year to the issue of nuclear testing, which had led to humanitarian and environmental disasters.
[ED NOTES:ALSO SEE... Syria , Iran, Israel Articulate Positions; Delegate Says Conference To Rid Region of Loathsome Weapons Will Be Difficult, but ‘Prize’ Worth It http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2012/gadis3459.doc.htm