Tehran, NU Online
Iran is hosting a two-day nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran starting on Saturday that will be attended by several foreign ministers and representatives from the United Nations.
"At the Tehran conference, we will discuss nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and the use of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, which are the bases of the Non-Proliferation Treaty," Iran's atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying on Friday.r />
Salehi has also said in recent days that the conference would serve as preparation for the next NPT review meeting in New York early next month, which Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki plans to attend.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, under whose presidency Iran has refused to abandon its controversial nuclear programme despite three sets of UN sanctions, will deliver the opening address.
Prior to Ahmadinejad's speech, a message from Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who formulates Tehran's foreign policy and is the commander-in-chief, will be read out, state media said.
Foreign ministers from Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, the Central African Republic, Oman, Turkmenistan, Armenia and Swaziland will participate, while Russia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar will be represented by their deputy foreign ministers, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said.
Mehmanparast said a special aide of the Chinese foreign minister, representatives of the United Nations and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the chief of Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) will also be present.
"Due to the eruption of the volcano (in Iceland), some foreign ministers from South America and Africa who had connecting flights may come later or tomorrow. Among them are also some experts of weapons of mass destructions and nuclear weapons," he added.
The conference comes just days after Washington held its biggest ever nuclear summit.
Iran criticised the 47-nation nuclear disarmament summit in Washington hosted by US President Barack Obama, on the grounds the United States holds one of the world's largest stocks of nuclear weapons.
At the biggest US nuclear summit in over six decades, Obama pressed China and other UN Security Council skeptics to back a fourth set of sanctions against Iran for its controversial uranium enrichment programme that Western states say masks a drive for atomic arms.
Tehran counters that it is entitled to enrich uranium as a Non-Proliferation Treaty member and strongly denies it wants nuclear weapons. (afp/dar)
Iran is hosting a two-day nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran starting on Saturday that will be attended by several foreign ministers and representatives from the United Nations.
"At the Tehran conference, we will discuss nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and the use of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, which are the bases of the Non-Proliferation Treaty," Iran's atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying on Friday.
Salehi has also said in recent days that the conference would serve as preparation for the next NPT review meeting in New York early next month, which Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki plans to attend.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, under whose presidency Iran has refused to abandon its controversial nuclear programme despite three sets of UN sanctions, will deliver the opening address.
Prior to Ahmadinejad's speech, a message from Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who formulates Tehran's foreign policy and is the commander-in-chief, will be read out, state media said.
Foreign ministers from Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, the Central African Republic, Oman, Turkmenistan, Armenia and Swaziland will participate, while Russia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar will be represented by their deputy foreign ministers, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said.
Mehmanparast said a special aide of the Chinese foreign minister, representatives of the United Nations and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the chief of Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) will also be present.
"Due to the eruption of the volcano (in Iceland), some foreign ministers from South America and Africa who had connecting flights may come later or tomorrow. Among them are also some experts of weapons of mass destructions and nuclear weapons," he added.
The conference comes just days after Washington held its biggest ever nuclear summit.
Iran criticised the 47-nation nuclear disarmament summit in Washington hosted by US President Barack Obama, on the grounds the United States holds one of the world's largest stocks of nuclear weapons.
At the biggest US nuclear summit in over six decades, Obama pressed China and other UN Security Council skeptics to back a fourth set of sanctions against Iran for its controversial uranium enrichment programme that Western states say masks a drive for atomic arms.
Tehran counters that it is entitled to enrich uranium as a Non-Proliferation Treaty member and strongly denies it wants nuclear weapons. (afp/dar)
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