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| Iran to propose reforms to NPT | |
| 2010-05-03 | |
| TEHRAN - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has failed and Iran will propose changes, as he left for New York on Sunday to take part in a conference to review the NPT. The hardline Iranian leader is to address the NPT conference on Monday, at the head of a delegation including Iran's atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi and Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki. “The biggest threat to the world today is the production and stockpiling of nuclear weapons. For more than 60 years, the atomic threat has influenced world relations,' Ahmadinejad told reporters before leaving for New York. “The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) in the past 40 years has not been successful in its mission. We have no disarmament or non-proliferation and some countries have even procured the nuclear bomb during this period.'
“This is an important meeting. For some time now, committees have been formed to undertake a fundamental revision (of the NPT) in order to achieve the aims for which the IAEA was formed,' he said, quoted by Fars news agency. “It is necessary to participate in this meeting at the highest level to offer the Iranian nation's proposals to the world. If this meeting is successful in making fundamental reforms to the NPT, it will be a big stride forward towards world security,' he said. Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Ahmadinejad would also “defend the rights of the Iranian people.' He is also expected to urge other NPT signatories to pressure Israel to sign the treaty, at a time when Washington is pressing world powers to impose a fourth round of UN sanctions against Tehran for defiantly enriching uranium. On Thursday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Ahmadinejad that he will fail if he tries to disrupt the New York talks. “If President Ahmadinejad wants to come and announce that Iran will abide by their non-proliferation requirements under the NPT, that would be very good news indeed,' she said. But if he thinks “he can somehow divert attention from this very important global effort or cause confusion that might possibly throw into doubt what Iran has been up to ... I don't believe he will have a particularly receptive audience.' | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 I'm hoping he bursts into one of his more insane speeches: hidden Imams, mahdis in a well, the glory of iran, saviour of the world. Entertaining and enlightening. The west hasn't heard, first hand, the true insanity of nutjob. This could be fun. |
| Posted by: Swanimote 2010-05-03 09:19 |