Report highlights Israel's refusal to join the NPT

BBC radio has said that Israel is the only country which refused to sign and ratify the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) on preventing the production and dissemination of nuclear arms.

In a report in the course of its program "Between the question and the answer" on Tuesday, the radio added that more 170 world countries have signed and ratified the NPT since 1998 at a time when Israeli refused to sign this treaty with the aim of continuing its escape from the possibility of having the UN observers and the International Atomic Energy Agency inspect its nuclear firms and reactors in Dimona, the Negev and near Tel Aviv.

The BBC indicated that the Dimona reactor, which produced since 1960 nuclear bombs and spare-warheads is still working until now, adding that no person is allowed to get near it.

In this respect, the BBC noted to the life imprisonment sentence taken against Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu under the pretext that he disclosed top secrets information about the nuclear reactor in Dimonah to the British press.

The BBC concluded by saying that Israel's lack of credibility and unwillingness to ratify the NPT will keep the region in a state of tension and continued threats and may result in encouraging other parties to maintain the arms race in the region.