KSA concerned about ‘IAEA’sreports on Iran’s lack of compliance and transparency

Ashraf AboArafe

The KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) expressed its deep concern about what the International Atomic Energy Agency indicated in its reports on verification work under the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement in Iran, its lack of full compliance with its obligations in the agreement, and its lack of transparency with the International Atomic Energy Agency, which constitutes a threat to the non-proliferation regime. And an obstacle to achieving the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations related to the maintenance of international peace and security, stressing its support from this point of view for all international efforts aimed at preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and threatening the region and the world.

This came in the Kingdom’s speech delivered by the Kingdom’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Wasel, during the plenary session of the Tenth Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

At the beginning of the speech, Ambassador Al-Wasel thanked the Chairman of the Tenth Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, for his efforts to establish the conference, and for effective coordination between groups of countries, despite the exceptional circumstances resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic that prevented the conference from being held on its previously scheduled date, stressing The Kingdom’s determination to make every effort to cooperate with the conference and other delegations, with the aim of making the work of the conference a success and reaching results that renew hope for including the concerns of all states parties, and promote the achievement of the objectives of this treaty.

He explained that based on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s deep belief that peaceful cooperation between states is one of the basic measures to achieve prosperity, prosperity and stability in the world, the Kingdom attaches great importance to the nuclear non-proliferation regime, as this treaty is its cornerstone leading to the universality of the treaty and the full implementation of its provisions that Aiming for a world free of nuclear weapons.

Ambassador Al-Wasel pointed out that the Kingdom appreciates the important role of the International Atomic Energy Agency and its Director General for the distinguished efforts and initiatives in developing the agency’s capabilities in a way that enhances its role in verifying and monitoring the peaceful nuclear programs of the states party to the treaty, stressing the inherent right of the states parties to the treaty to peaceful use. atomic energy in accordance with its provisions.

He said: “My country is committed to its national policy that emphasizes the highest standards of transparency and reliability for the development of peaceful uses of atomic energy in various fields, including its national atomic energy project, and the importance of the nuclear states’ commitment to one of the foundations of the treaty by making nuclear technology available to the states parties to the treaty, without additional requirements outside the treaty.” The treaty framework and provisions or restrictions that deprive it of the right to peaceful nuclear technology.

He reiterated the importance of states’ commitment to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, stressing the role of the United Nations General Assembly in calling on non-party states to quickly join it and place all their nuclear facilities under the comprehensive safeguards system of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Ambassador Al-Wasel added, “The responsibility to free the Middle East from nuclear weapons is a collective responsibility at the international level, and the 1995 resolution on the Middle East is an integral part of other resolutions that led to the adoption of the indefinite extension decision of the Treaty. In this context, the 1995 Middle East resolution is a It is valid until its implementation and full achievement of its objectives.

He continued: “My country reiterates its regret for not holding the 2012 conference called for by the Middle East Action Plan in the Final Document of the 2010 Treaty Review Conference, which is a violation of the review process and the agreed obligations, and this decision is one of the solutions that the international community is expected to activate in The inability of other international frameworks, especially the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, to stop Iran’s threatening practices for non-proliferation in the region, as well as the failure to achieve the universality of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, with Israel’s continued refusal to join it, and this represents an obstacle that cannot be overlooked, because The origin of this treaty is that it provides non-nuclear countries with a security guarantee that atomic energy will not be misused for the purposes of armament, a guarantee that is missing in the Middle East as long as Israel refuses to join it, subject all its nuclear facilities to the comprehensive safeguards system of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and refuses to implement relevant international resolutions and ignoring the decisions of the NPT review conferences.

He stressed the need to confront the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, and the need to deal with it, as the threat is not limited to the region only, but to the whole world.

Ambassador Al-Wasel also expressed once again the Kingdom’s aspiration to make this conference a success, and to address the concerns of the countries of the Middle East region, in particular, and the world at large, in order to achieve peace, prosperity and stability for all.