Kuwait FM speaks out on safeguarding Middle East from WMDs

KUWAIT, Sep 27 (KUNA) -- Kuwait Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah took part in the IAEA 66th general conference of 2022 in Vienna on Tuesday, giving a venerated speech addressing the members and constituents alike.
His word began by thanking the members for their efforts to put together the conference, and also thanked Director General of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, and his staff for their efforts to uphold such a gathering and their continued efforts in materializing the agency's goals.
Pleased to point that Kuwait earlier this year had donated USD 200,000 for the final stage of the modernization of its nuclear applications laboratories in Seibersdorf, near Vienna, putting the total amount of the Kuwaiti donations to the project since its launching 2015 at USD 1.7 million.
Subsequent reviewing the 2021 yearly report of the agency, the minister expressed Kuwait's satisfaction with the path of cooperation between Kuwait and the IAEA.
Cooperation has been exquisite on a wide variety of existing projects including nuclear technical applications in the oil industry, production of genetically modified crops, freshwater aquifers and cancer treatment, including research on the feasibility of using small reactors to produce electric energy, Sheikh Dr. Ahmad said.
He went on to say that this has encouraged Kuwait to host a number of events relating to these efforts last year, and to plan hold other regional activities this year in the areas of energy, agriculture, water, soil and food.
As specialist will also be working a variety of projects, of which will be on Zoonotic Disease Integrated Action (Zodiac) and the hosting of training programs early next year for members of the Asian and Pacific regions to able to run sample tests by using the modern research vessel "Al-Mustakshif", equipped with the latest research equipment.
On nuclear power and its uses, Foreign Affairs Minister called on North Korean authorities to adhere to international treaties and pertinent Security Council resolutions, while also urging Iran to firmly stick to UNSC resolution 2231 of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and sign the additional protocol to help provide a more credited source of trustworthy information on the current situation of the nuclear facilities in Iran.
So Kuwait is still adamant on establishing a Middle East region free of any weapons of mass destruction, vowing to the 1995 treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), while also stressing the importance of Israeli's compliance to the NPT as a non-nuclear weapons party, and subjecting all its facilities to IAEA's safeguarding protocols. (end) aas.aq