The move is aimed at benefiting from nuclear programme for peaceful purposes, particularly in generating electricity and improving medical and industrial services, he added.

Addressing the First Committee on “Disarmament and International Security” he said, “Other positive developments included the joint understanding reached between the Governments of the USA and Russian Federation last July on the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, which was reflected in the two historical addresses given by the American President Barack Obama before this General Assembly and the Security Council Summit held
few days ago.”

He said his country is optimistic  about the two initiatives recently announced by President Obama and aimed at holding an international conference next April on securing vulnerable nuclear materials, and its endeavors to reach an agreement with the Russian Federation on reducing nuclear warheads and their launchers at the two countries. “In this context, we reiterate that all these important efforts and endeavours cannot replace the required reductions in nuclear weapons in the two countries in complete transparency and in order to achieve their ultimate goal of total elimination,” he added.

“We therefore, call upon all states, particularly nuclear states, to demonstrate the necessary flexibility and political will and abide by the principle of multilateralism in their current negotiations on disarmament and on the work of the 2010 Review Conference on the non-proliferation Treaty, which coincides with the fortieth anniversary of opening the door for the signature of this Treaty,” he said.

“In this context, we emphasise our support to the five-point plan presented by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and we call for focusing our current discussions on, achieving tangible progress in the areas of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation in all its aspects, initiating serious and unconditional negotiations that would ultimately lead to reaching an international agreement on a fissile material treaty and supporting the ongoing efforts aimed at bringing the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) into force as soon as possible,” he said.

“Efforts also include enhancing cooperation in areas of peacekeeping and preventive diplomacy, which would require the positive cooperation of all states and their full compliance to all principles and provisions of international law and also to the standards set by the Charter and other resolutions, conventions and programmes of work of the relevant UN bodies and committees which aim at addressing such issues,” he pointed.

He noted that the UAE had always followed balanced and steady internal and external policies based on mutual cooperation with all countries in accordance with the principles of the UN Charter and international law. —