Date : 01/02/2012
Cairo, Feb 1 (KUNA) -- The committee following up the Israeli nuclear
activity called on senior Arab officials to prepare for taking part in the
2012 Finland 2011 conference.
The committee, headed by the representative of Mauritania Mohammad Ahmad
Ould Ismael, with the participation representatives of 15 countries, besides
the Director General of the Arab Authority for Nuclear Energy, and the
delegation of the Arab League General Secretariat, concluded its 31st meeting
late last night.
The committee stressed the importance of working to reach a unified Arab
position to take practical steps on transforming the Middle East into a
nuclear weapons-free zone.
They also discussed possible options on ways to end the ambiguities
concerning the Israeli nuclear program.
The committee also tackled the possibility the 2012 Finland conference
might fail in establishing a nuclear free zone, considering the
recommendations of the senior officials committee formed upon a resolution of
the Arab League.
The committee called on Arab countries to speed up preparing a
comprehensive evaluation of an Arab draft resolution of the Israeli nuclear
capacity to allow the General Secretariat of the Arab League to brief the
Council of Arab Foreign Ministers by the next summit to organize the best
policy to be taken at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General
Conference.
The committee examined Israel's violation of international laws banning the
"use depleted uranium against civilians, and burying radioactive waste in
occupied Arab territories.
The Finland conference will discuss a nuclear weapons-free zone in the
Middle East, in implementation of the 2010 resolution of reviewing the Treaty
on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). (end)
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