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Egyptian FM explains why his country supported IAEA resolution
| ...it's all about Israel, naturally. |
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Abul-Gheit said his country had made a significant contribution to a statement issued earlier by the Board of Trustees of the International Atomic Energy Commission (IAEA) on Iran. The minister said, in a press statement issued by the Foreign Affairs Department, that his country had contributed to the addition of a clause to the statement, which was issued by the IAEA about Iran's efforts to enrich uranium. Abul-Gheit said, in an indirect allusion to Israel's arsenal of nuclear weapons, that his country had insisted that an IAEA resolution should call for keeping the Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction. He added that, thanks to Egypt, the resolution had called for implementing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty throughout the globe.
"It is only on these grounds" that Egypt endorsed an IAEA resolution slamming Iran's efforts to achieve uranium enrichment without help from Russia or any other EU state. The Egyptian minister called on the IAEA not to adopt any measures against Iran in the immediate future. He called on all parties to "return to the negotiation table."
Posted by: Seafarious 2006-02-05 |
