By IRNA,
United Nations, New York : Ways should be open for all world countries to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes free from any monopoly, chairman of the third preparatory meeting of the Review Conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation said Friday.
In an exclusive interview with IRNA, Boniface Chidyausiku said Non-Proliferation Treaty stressed the right of all world countries to make peaceful use of nuclear energy so the nuclear-capable countries should aide other world states to develop their own nuclear programs.
The official, who is also Zimbabwe’s permanent representative to the UN, further regretted that efforts made so far to this end were very restricted and rather biased.
He stressed that all parties should help materialize the NPT provisions.
The undergoing third preparatory meeting of the NPT Review Conference started last Monday to discuss major issues to be raised in the next NPT Review Conference which is slated to be held in Vienna, Austria, in 2010. Based on the Treaty, a review conference is held every five-year.
Iran is represented in the preparatory meeting by a delegation headed by Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Mohammad-Ali Hosseini.
The delegation also includes other ranking members of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization as well as Iran’s representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency.