NAM calls for inclusion of `non-nuclear ME' clause to EU draft resolution
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Vienna, Feb 4, IRNA
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Certain countries of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have called for the inclusion of a clause in the EU draft resoltuion calling for "a Middle East region free from nuclear weapons" in the draft resolution adopted by the European Union on Iran that is to be put to a vote in the IAEA Board of Governors' emergency meeting Saturday.
A Western diplomat told IRNA here Friday that six member states of the NAM, chaired by Egypt, made the request.
The EU opposes inclusion of the clause, contending that the issue therein has nothing to do with the issue now under consideration by the IAEA.
The diplomat argued that inclusion of the issue was, in fact, the most important reason for the postponement of the emergency session of the IAEA's Board Governors from Friday evening to Saturday.
The board has now extended its emergency meeting to three days instead of two.
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