Iran says Western states responsible for failure of NPT conference
Iran says illogical stances adopted by the United States and its allies were responsible for the failure of a major United Nations Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, held in New York earlier this week.
Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said in an X post on Saturday that Western states led by the US were seeking to insert or retain phrases in a draft final document of the UN nuclear disarmament conference as they tried to condemn Iran for alleged non-compliance with its obligations under UN laws and resolutions.
Gharibabadi said, however, that those “desperate efforts” ended in vain, as Iran managed to prevent the adoption of a final document that was politically motivated.
“The responsibility for this failure lies with these countries. The Islamic Republic of Iran will not allow these countries to continue their indiscriminate instrumental abuse of international bodies and documents in pursuit of their political objectives,” said the senior diplomat.
Iran is a member of the UN Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has accepted extensive inspections of its nuclear facilities as a sign that it has never pursued nuclear weapons.
However, Iranian nuclear installations have come under rounds of attacks by the United States and the Israeli regime during two wars of aggression that took place in June last year and from February to April this year.
Reports on Friday said that Iranian delegates to the UN disarmament conference had blocked efforts by the US and its allies to legitimize attacks on Iranian nuclear sites by accusing that country of non-compliance with the NPT.
Gharibabadi said in his Saturday post that all countries in the world should be treated the same when it comes to nuclear disarmament.
“If the non-proliferation regime is to survive, it must be built on equal security, equal sovereignty, and equal accountability; not nuclear exceptionalism,” he said.
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