The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has underlined the importance of keeping the Middle East Region free from nuclear weapons and said stability and security never come through acquisition of weapons of mass-destruction, but they come through cooperation and exerting efforts for realizing development and progress. Naif bin Bandar Al-Sudeiry, the Plenipotentiary Minister at the Saudi Foreign Ministry and Head of the Kingdom's delegation to the conference on "Revision of Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) of the nuclear weapons, currently in progress here, said the NPT constitutes the major pillar for preventing proliferation of nuclear weapons, adding that the international community should work for internationalization of the NPT through exerting all possible efforts for reaching an agreement for realizing the goal of admission of countries which have not yet signed the treaty to it unconditionally and to put their nuclear facilities under the system of comprehensive guarantees of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), he said noting that failure to put pressure on Israel to sign the treaty will endanger the stability of the Middle East and may pave the way for the nuclear race. --MORE
