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Thursday, April 11, 1996
Egypt, together with a group of sisterly African countries, were the vanguards calling for the renunciation of the nuclear military choice. Hence it signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) on the first day of its initiation. Egypt has sincerely and persistently sought to make it an international treaty comprising all the world community without exception or discrimination between a big or small country. Truly, Egypt and its sisterly African countries shouldered the responsibility of playing a prominent role in maintaining peace a stability not only in Africa but in other parts of the world with which we have common interests and concerns, such as the Middle East, which has a special strategic importance to Africa and the various countries of the world. Among the issues of special interest to Africa is rendering the Middle East a nuclear free zone and urging all countries of the region to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, to be committed to it and enjoy all its safeguards, thus furthering the regional drive to create nuclear free zones and eventually acquire the aspired international character. |
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