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Ambassador Al-Sabbagh: Syria has cooperated with the IAEA with all transparency

2019-09-18T14:07:32.972Z


Vienna, (SANA) - Syria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Vienna, Bassam al-Sabbagh, said Syria has cooperated


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Ambassador Bassam Sabbagh, Syria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Vienna, stressed that Syria cooperated with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with full transparency and exercised maximum flexibility regarding the application of its safeguards agreement. Under the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement and the NPT.

"The General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as the highest decision-making body provides an important platform for all member states to discuss aspects of the IAEA's work and ways to overcome the challenges they face," Sabbagh said in a statement to the 63rd session of the IAEA General Conference. And to prevent its diversion or use it as a tool to serve the narrow political agendas of some countries. ”

Al-Sabbagh added that Syria points out that the item discussed by the IAEA Board of Governors on the application of the Safeguards Agreement in the Syrian Arab Republic is one of the negative aspects of the use of this agency by some countries to serve its political agendas, noting that the Israeli aggression on the sovereignty of Syrian territory in 2007. Which requires condemnation and condemnation was used as a platform to attack Syria, "which was the victim of aggression, with the aim of tarnishing its image and exerting political pressure on and besieged."

Sabbagh said: "The Israeli recognition of responsibility for the aggression against Syria after a decade of denial and lying, it is imperative for the Agency to immediately begin sending its inspection mission to" Israel "and unless the aggressor entity cooperates with the Agency, continuing to discuss this issue will remain in vain."

Syria has cooperated with the IAEA with full transparency and exercised the utmost flexibility.The Agency's annual reports on the implementation of safeguards, the latest for 2018, have witnessed Syria's full commitment to fulfill its obligations under the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement and the NPT and met all periodic inspection requests on time, the latest of which was in March. From this year.

Al-Sabbagh said that the resolution of the 53rd session of the General Conference entitled "Israeli nuclear capabilities" clearly expressed the international community's concern about the threat posed by nuclear proliferation to security and stability in the Middle East, and sent a clear message about the serious concern about Israeli nuclear capabilities and called on the enemy entity Israel to accede to the NPT and subject all its nuclear facilities to comprehensive IAEA safeguards.

Al-Sabbagh reiterated that the survival of Israel with its nuclear capabilities outside the framework of the Treaty and the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement poses a serious threat to the non-proliferation regime and poses a threat to security and stability in the Middle East region as well as to international peace and security.

Sabbagh stressed that the refusal of the Israeli enemy entity to join the NPT or any of the other international conventions related to the disarmament of weapons of mass destruction and possessing large nuclear capabilities does not qualify it to boast about cases of non-compliance with the treaty.

Al-Sabbagh expressed regret that while all NPT member countries have expressed their readiness to take practical steps towards a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East, the Israeli entity has continued to defy the international community by insisting on staying out of the non-proliferation regime. This is based on the unwavering support of his allies, including nuclear states such as the United States, which is pursuing a policy of double standards to strengthen the non-proliferation regime when it comes to Israeli nuclear capabilities.

Al-Sabbagh pointed out that Syria supported the adoption by the UN General Assembly at the 73rd session of the decision entitled “Holding a conference for the establishment of a zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East”, with the aim of reaffirming all references already approved in this regard and breaking the deadlock. Faced with the implementation of the 1995 Middle East resolution.

He said Syria, while affirming its readiness to work with all countries participating in the conference to be held in New York next November to reach fruitful and effective results, it commends the support provided by some sponsors of the 1995 resolution to hold this conference and in return, it is surprised and deplores the role The United States, one of the sponsors of the resolution, is insisting on not participating in this conference and hindering the implementation of the 1995 Middle East resolution in various ways.

Regarding the nuclear agreement signed with Iran between al-Sabbagh, Syria welcomed Iran's commitment to implement its obligations under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which was confirmed by all relevant IAEA reports. 2231 of 2015 put this diplomatic achievement at great risk.

"It should be emphasized that the JCPOA includes rights and obligations and the success of its implementation depends not only on Iran, but should be matched by the fulfillment by other parties of their obligations under the said plan, in particular the lifting of unfair sanctions against the Iranian people," he said.

Al-Sabbagh pointed out that Syria supports the efforts of the Agency in spreading nuclear technology to the member countries in the service of its development plans and appreciates the role of its technical cooperation program. “Syria has been able to implement a good part of the components of the national technical cooperation projects due to the support provided by the technical cooperation department in the agency. In this regard, it welcomes the hosting of training activities on its territory within the framework of the Agency's technical cooperation programs and affirms its full readiness to provide all necessary guarantees for the successful conduct of such training activities.

Source: sena

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