Iran seeks to establish international convention on nuclear disarmament

PanARMENIAN.Net - Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said Friday that Iran was seeking to establish an international convention on nuclear disarmament.

“We can have a convention on nuclear disarmament as we have a similar convention on disarmament of chemical weapons,” Salehi told IRNA in an exclusive interview which was made in the plane bringing him back from Geneva, Switzerland.

Salehi was in Geneva to attend the 16th session of the UN Human Rights Council which started in Geneva on February 28 and would continue until March 25, 2011.

“One of the problems on the way of nuclear disarmament is that the nuclear-states are also permanent members of the United Nations Security Council who take major decisions for global issues,” Salehi stated.

He stressed that Iran “is against the present unjust system of global management which is based on the logic of force.”

Salehi expressed hope that the second international conference on nuclear disarmament would be held again in Tehran.

The first conference on nuclear disarmament was held in Tehran on April 17 and 18, 2010.

The conference was entitled 'International Disarmament and Non-proliferation: World Security without Weapons of Mass Destruction.' The theme of the conference was Nuclear Energy for All, Nuclear Weapons for No One.

It resulted in President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's call for more rigorous action toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons.