NEW YORK, March 14 (KUNA) -- The State of Kuwait has stated that it supports the right of the United Kingdom or other countries that undergo a chemical attack to carry out necessary investigations and take required measures to protect its national security and bring to justice those involved in this criminal act.
This came in a speech by the Permanent Representative of Kuwait to the United Nations Ambassador Mansour Al-Otaibi during an emergency UN Security Council session called by the United Kingdom to discuss the letter from the British charge d'affaires to the Security Council President about the attempted assassination of a former Russian spy and his daughter by a nerve agent in the British city of Salisbury.
Al-Otaibi stated that "the council is meeting today to discuss the issue of the use of chemical weapons, and we express our concern here about the assassination attempt in Salisbury. This crime endangers the security and safety of civilians and could have ramifications on relations between member states." He reuttered Kuwait's principled and firm stance of condemning any use, production, possession, stockpiling or maintaining of chemical weapons or the transfer of chemical weapons, directly or indirectly.
Al-Otaibi added that this stance is based on article one of the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which Kuwait calls upon all ratifying states to abide by its provisions and to eliminate its stockpiles of toxic chemicals.
"The UK has called for this meeting because it considers what has happened on its territory to be hostile act that violates international norms and agreements relevant to chemical weapons," he said.
Al-Otaibi called on all states with a responsibility towards international peace and security and all States that have consistently expressed their commitment to the Charter of the United Nations to take clear and sincere steps towards the goal of creating a world free of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction.
He recalled resolution no. 2325 adopted by the Security Council in 2016, which reaffirmed that the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons as well as their means of delivery poses a threat to international peace and security. (Pick up previous) asf.ibi