Beirut's conference of nuclear power warps up deliberations

The General Conference of the Arab Association for Nuclear Energy (ASNE) called for intensifying efforts to continue the project of the agreement of freeing the Middle East from weapons of mass destruction (WMD, on top of which nuclear weapons.

In a statement at the end of the Conference meetings in Beirut, the Conference warned against an attempt to an international recognition of Israel as a nuclear power to join the other nuclear powers in the world, thereby emptying the non-Proliferation Agreement from any meaning in the region.

The statement highlighted the role of the ASNE in developing human resources in the field of the peaceful use of nuclear energy, particularly in the domains of health, agriculture, environment and human resources.

It also stressed the necessity of making use of peaceful techniques of nuclear power in the economic development in the Arab states.