Uzbekistan supports establishing nuclear-weapon-free zone in Middle East
19/10/2016 14:09
Uzbekistan supports establishing nuclear-weapon-free zone in Middle East
19/10/2016 14:09
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Uzbekistan stands for consistent widening of scales of nuclear-weapon-free zones and supports the idea of establishing a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East, Interim President and Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyayev said in the opening ceremony of the 43rd Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
“The problem of non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction remains one of the most urgent issues of the present day. Yet in 1993 Uzbekistan put forward the initiative on establishment of the Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia,” he said at the ceremony.
“This initiative found its practical embodiment in the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia signed by Uzbekistan and neighboring countries in 2006, as well as the Protocol on Negative Guarantees signed by five permanent members of the UN Security Council in 2014,” Mirziyayev noted.
He said that Uzbekistan stands for consistent widening of scales of nuclear-weapon-free zones and supports the idea of establishing a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East.
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