Qatar strongly calls on IAEA to oversee Israel’s nuclear reactors

Qatar says the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should closely monitor Israel’s nuclear activities and oversee its nuclear reactors, emphasizing the urgent need for opening the regime’s atomic reactors to inspectors.

Qatar’s Ambassador to Austria and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and International Organizations in Vienna Sultan bin Salmeen Al Mansouri made the comments at a session of the IAEA Board of Governors in the Austrian capital amid discussion on Israeli nuclear capabilities on Saturday.

The Qatari envoy stressed “the importance of Israel cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency regarding its nuclear capabilities, and to open its atomic reactors to inspectors,” said a statement by Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Mansouri’s remarks came in response to allegations leveled by the Israeli representative in the IAEA against Qatar. 

He asked the Israeli envoy to “stop giving speeches of incitement and deliberately obliterating facts, and not to evade revealing the truth about Israel's nuclear capabilities,” the statement added.

Under its policy of nuclear ambiguity, Israel neither confirms nor denies having nuclear weapons. However, the regime is widely believed to be one of only nine nuclear-armed countries in the world.

The Tel Aviv regime is believed to have West Asia’s only nuclear arsenal with an estimated several hundred warheads.

“All Arab countries, including the State of Qatar, joined the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [NPT] and adopted and agreed to all international resolutions calling for West Asia to be free of nuclear weapons, while Israel refuses to engage in these efforts,” the statement further quoted the Qatari envoy as saying. 

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