VIENNA (PIC)– Qatar has stressed the need for the denuclearization of the Middle East and compel Israel to implement the relevant international resolutions and to accede to the NPT and to subject its nuclear facilities to International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards.
This came in Qatar’s speech delivered by Staff Major General (Pilot) Nasser bin Mohamed al-Ali chairman of the Qatar National Committee for the Prohibition of Weapons at the 60th session of General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) currently being held in Vienna from 26 to 30 September.
He pointed out that among the objectives of the Qatar National Vision is development of the institutions involved in the peaceful applications of atomic energy and the expansion of its activities especially in the energy food agriculture human health and environment.
He praised the cooperation provided by the International Atomic Energy Agency in many of these projects adding that Qatar intends to expand and strengthen this cooperation in the future.
He also referred to Qatar’s involvement in other projects with the agency at the regional level such as what exists between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the International Atomic Energy Agency and between the Agency and the Arab Atomic Energy Agency and the Group of Arab States in Asia (Arasia) and the agency.
He also commended the Agency’s annual report of 2015 and its central role in promoting security and nuclear safety in the world in an inclusive and transparent manner.
He appreciated the Agency’s efforts in spreading the peaceful applications of atomic energy especially in developing countries by helping them to use nuclear technology particularly in the health food security energy and environment areas adding that these activities will coincide with the entry of the United Nations development plan (2030) into effect from the beginning of this year.
