Iran supports nuclear disarmament in Central Asia - FM
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Ashkhabad, June 24, IRNA -- Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here on Thursday that the Islamic Republic of Iran supports nuclear disarmament across the world, particularly in the Central Asia.
Addressing an international conference on disarmament in the Central Asia and the Caspian Sea region in Ashkhabad, Mottaki said Iran believes that nuclear disarmament will lead to establishment of peace and security in the region.
He reiterated that those possessing nuclear weapons are responsible for the failure of efforts to annihilate nuclear weapons.
Mottaki further said the instrumental use of nuclear weapons is the worst kind of “political blackmailing.”
"Possessing nuclear arms, in any form or under any title, is illegitimate,” Iran’s foreign minister underlined.
Mottaki urged all countries possessing nuclear arsenals to fully annihilate their weapons of mass destruction as soon as possible.
He regretted that the Zionist regime, by possessing nuclear weapons, has endangered peace and tranquility in the Middle East region.
The international conference on disarmament in the Central Asia and the Caspian Sea region was inaugurated in Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan, by the Turkmen President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov this morning.
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