Iraq Asks UN for Help in Building New Nuclear Reactor
Iraq's foreign minister asked nuclear countries for help building a nuclear reactor, saying the country has a right to use nuclear power peacefully as a party to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
Ami Rojkes Dombe
| 25/09/2017
Iraq’s Foregin Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari addresses the 72nd session of the United Nations General assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on September 23, 2017 - https://youtu.be/_4n5NlAb3P0
Iraq on Saturday asked the international community for assistance in building a nuclear power reactor for peaceful purposes.
"Iraq calls for assistance from our kindred nuclear countries to build a nuclear reactor for peaceful purposes ... in accordance with the non-proliferation treaty," Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafar told the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Al-Jaafari cited the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty's provisions allowing countries to pursue peaceful nuclear energy projects, AP reported. Iraq ratified the treaty in 1969.
Non-nuclear nations that signed it agreed to not pursue atomic weapons. In exchange, the five original nuclear powers – the US, Russia, Britain, France and China – promised to move toward nuclear disarmament and to guarantee non-nuclear states access to peaceful nuclear technology for producing power.
Iraq's previous efforts to build a nuclear reactor were met with an Israeli airstrike on the Osirak nuclear facility in 1981 and years of suspicion about his nuclear intentions.
Iraq's foreign minister asked nuclear countries for help building a nuclear reactor, saying the country has a right to use nuclear power peacefully as a party to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
Iraq’s Foregin Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari addresses the 72nd session of the United Nations General assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on September 23, 2017 - https://youtu.be/_4n5NlAb3P0
Iraq on Saturday asked the international community for assistance in building a nuclear power reactor for peaceful purposes.
"Iraq calls for assistance from our kindred nuclear countries to build a nuclear reactor for peaceful purposes ... in accordance with the non-proliferation treaty," Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafar told the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Al-Jaafari cited the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty's provisions allowing countries to pursue peaceful nuclear energy projects, AP reported. Iraq ratified the treaty in 1969.
Non-nuclear nations that signed it agreed to not pursue atomic weapons. In exchange, the five original nuclear powers – the US, Russia, Britain, France and China – promised to move toward nuclear disarmament and to guarantee non-nuclear states access to peaceful nuclear technology for producing power.
Iraq's previous efforts to build a nuclear reactor were met with an Israeli airstrike on the Osirak nuclear facility in 1981 and years of suspicion about his nuclear intentions.
