Qatar expressed deep concern over failure to achieve tangible progress on nuclear disarmament and the repeated failure to comply with the implementation of the 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear and the 13 “practical steps” outlined in the 2000 NPT review conference final document and the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
Qatar stressed that nuclear-armed states failure to put any specific time frames for the implementation of these international commitments for the total elimination of nuclear weapons is of great concern, adding that the failure to implement the decisions and results of the previous review cycles impinge on their credibility.
This came in Qatar’s speech delivered by Abdulaziz Hamdan al-Ahmed, a member of Qatar’s delegation to the 71st Session of the UN General Assembly before the First Committee on the Item “Nuclear Weapons.”