Kuwait demands Israel joins Non-Proliferation Treaty

Kuwait has called for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons, stressing that Israel must join the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty (NPT). “There are some regions like the Middle East that are still far from achieving the desired goal due to Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons and ignoring all legitimate and international resolutions,” said Abdulaziz Ammash Ajmi, first secretary of Kuwait’s permanent delegation to the United Nations, on Wednesday during the 2016 substantive session of the Disarmament Commission in New York.

Ajmi stressed the need for Tel Aviv to sign the NPT and to place all its facilities under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Ajmi said: “Israel has repeatedly evaded its obligations towards the resolutions stemming from the 1995 and 2010 review conferences of the treaty.”

As many as 190 countries have joined the treaty, including the United States, Britain, Russia, China and France.

India, Pakistan and Israel refuse to sign it.