state parties from making, acquiring, possessing, developing, transporting, transferring or using weapons of mass destruction through their national legislation and through its foreign policy efforts aiming at the implementation of the resolution and working on strengthen cooperation at regional and international level to apply it in order to achieve peace and security in the region. Almoalimi said that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is one of the first countries that have adopted the international resolutions related to nuclear security including UN Security Council Resolution 1540. It has also paid special attention to the question of development of infrastructure for nuclear security and rehabilitation of human resources. To achieve this, it established a specialized academic program on nuclear security sciences and organized an international workshop on resolution 1540 in Riyadh in January 2011 in an effort to introduce the resolution with the participation of delegations from several countries and donated in 2012 500,000 dollars to the Committee of Security Council Resolution 1540 to help it to carry out its functions which resulted in the establishment of three different events in cooperation between the kingdom and the United Nations University and the Committee of the resolution with the participation of several officials from states, universities and specialized institutes which contributed to the identification and awareness of the importance of the work of the 1540 Committee and its impact on international peace and security. Almoalimi noted that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and at the international level has reaffirmed its commitment to preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction through its accession to major international treaties and conventions on nuclear, biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction and the Geneva Protocol on toxic gases which proves its commitment to support and implement international efforts calling for the fight against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and rather their disposal in order to achieve international peace and security. --More 11:13 LOCAL TIME 08:13 GMT تغريد
