All World’s Countries To Adhere To NPT: Egypt

Mohamed Amr, minister of foreign affairs, seeks to make the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty global by joining the world’s countries; considering this as a part of the international efforts.

This was mentioned in the minister’s speech this morning at the Nuclear Security Summit which is holding in Seoul with the participation of more than 50 countries, in addition to UN’s Secretary General and the European Commission President as well Director General of IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency.

Amr Roshdey, the ministry of foreign affairs’ spokesman, said that the minister in his speech emphasized on the central of the IAEA’s comprehensive warranties system to achieve nuclear security, also Egypt’s steady stance of having an empty-nuclear zone in the Middle East. In this respect, he referred to the important international conference that will held next year by the UN to discuss constructing this zone; as this is a respond to Egypt’s initiative in 2010.

The minister underscored that denuclearization and nuclear non-proliferation considered being main factors of the country’s efforts to achieve nuclear security.

He explained that this security couldn’t be achieved as long as world’s countries have nuclear weapons used in military purposes.

It was mentioned that Egypt participates in Nuclear Security Summit, with a delegation headed by minister of foreign affairs and representatives of  national authorities.

Three states —India, Israel, and Pakistan— have never signed the treaty. India and Pakistan are confirmed nuclear powers, and Israel has a long-standing policy of deliberate ambiguity (see List of countries with nuclear weapons). India argues that the NPT creates a club of “nuclear haves” and a larger group of “nuclear have-nots” by restricting the legal possession of nuclear weapons to those states that tested them before 1967, but the treaty never explains on what ethical grounds such a distinction is valid.