UN Urges ’Israel’ to Open Nuclear Facilities

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The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution Monday calling on the Zionist entity to quickly open its nuclear program for inspection and backing a high-level conference to ban nuclear weapons from the Middle East which was just canceled.
All the Arab nations and Iran had planned to attend the conference in mid-December in Helsinki, Finland, but the United States announced on Nov. 23 that it wouldn't take place. It was learned the US had cancelled the scheduled conference as "Israel" refused to attend.
The resolution, approved by a vote of 174-6 with 6 abstentions, calls on "Israel" to join the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) without further delay and open its nuclear facilities to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Those voting "no" were "Israel", the US, Canada, Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau.

Just before Monday's vote, Iranian diplomat Khodadad Seifi told the assembly "the truth is that the "Israel" is the only party which rejected to conditions for a conference." He called for "strong pressure on that regime to participate in the conference without any preconditions."

Resolutions adopted by the 193-member General Assembly are not legally binding, but they do reflect world opinion and carry moral and political weight.
"Israel" refuses to confirm or deny it has nuclear bombs though it is widely believed to have a nuclear arsenal. It has refused to join the NPT.

 The Arab proposal to create a mass-destruction-weapons free zone in the Mideast, and to pressure "Israel" to give up its undeclared arsenal of perhaps 80 nuclear warheads, was endorsed at an NPT conference in 1995 but never acted on.

In 2010, the 189 parties to the 1970 treaty called for convening a conference in 2012 on the establishment of a WMD-free zone in the Middle East.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org