PNN – Kuwait, emphasizing the need for international supervision of Israel’s nuclear program, called on the international community to place the regime’s nuclear facilities under the International Atomic Energy Agency’s safeguards system.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), Talal Al-Fassam, Kuwait’s permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, said: Everyone in the Middle East adheres to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and implements the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement, except for Israel, which has so far refused international monitoring of its nuclear facilities.
He added that the Israeli occupation regime opposes any serious action or step to create a zone free of nuclear weapons and mass destruction in the Middle East.
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Al-Fassam stressed the need to keep the issue of the occupation regime’s nuclear capabilities on the agenda of the Agency and its relevant institutions until a serious decision is made to resolve this issue.
He emphasized that this issue lays the foundation for a region free of nuclear weapons and mass destruction in the Middle East and for strengthening security and peace at the regional and international levels.
It is worth noting that the Israeli regime is the only party in the West Asian region that is not a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and therefore has no obligation to provide information about its nuclear program or accept Agency inspections.
Despite keeping the program secret, independent assessments have painted a relatively clear picture. The Federation of American Scientists estimated in 2023 that Israel possessed about 90 nuclear warheads and had the ability to produce enough fissile material to make 100 to 200 nuclear weapons.
The regime’s nuclear program began in the 1950s with the construction of the Negev Desert Nuclear Research Center near the city of Dimona. France was one of the most important early supporters of the program, and in the late 1950s, it provided the regime with a research reactor and a nuclear fuel reprocessing facility.
This program has since been accompanied by silence and practical support from some Western countries, while these same countries are exerting intense pressure on Iran and North Korea on the nuclear issue.