Int’l Community again into Double Standards: IAEA Rejects Proposal against Nuclear ’Israel’

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The members of the UN's nuclear agency have narrowly rejected an Arab-backed resolution calling on the Zionist entity to join a global treaty limiting nuclear arms.

Following a lively debate at the International Atomic Energy Agency's [IAEA] annual general conference on Friday, the measure, supported by Iran, was defeated by 51 votes against and 43 in favor with 32 abstentions.

"Israel" is widely known to have nuclear arms so, and is not a signatory to the landmark Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [NPT].
Although "Israel" is a member of the IAEA, it is not subject to its inspections except for at a small research facility.

The resolution debated at the meeting of all 159 IAEA member states expressed "concern about "Israeli" nuclear capabilities and calls upon "Israel" to accede to the NPT and place all its nuclear facilities under comprehensive IAEA safeguards".
In 2009, the same resolution was narrowly approved by members of the IAEA and in 2010 it was defeated only after intensive lobbying efforts by Western countries.
In 2012, and in 2011, Arab states decided not to propose the resolution in order to encourage the creation of the so-called "Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction".

These efforts, however, have so far come to nothing, with a hoped-for conference failing to take place in late 2012 as planned.
Oman's ambassador Badr Mohamed Zaher al-Hinai, talking on behalf of Arab states at the IAEA, said that the proposed resolution "could resuscitate" efforts towards a nuclear-free Middle East.
Attacking the "double standards" of Western countries, he called allegations that other Middle East countries were seeking nuclear weapons a "huge distortion of the facts".

Speaking for the Zionist entity, deputy ambassador Daniel Danieli said that the resolution amounted to ""Israel"-bashing" that "contributes to the politicization of the IAEA".

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team