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Dr. Shaul Chorev, head of the Israeli commission to the IAEA in Vienna claimed while delivering a speech during today’s afternoon session of the 57 General Conference, that the Arab States had rejected all Israeli efforts of peace at the IAEA and other international organizations in the field atomic energy, accusing them of using the IAEA General Conferences to “launch a campaign against Israel”.
Israel Targets Arab States, Syria and Iran at IAEA
Dr. Shaul Chorev, head of the Israeli commission to the IAEA in Vienna claimed while delivering a speech during today’s afternoon session of the 57 General Conference, that the Arab States had rejected all Israeli efforts of peace at the IAEA and other international organizations in the field atomic energy, accusing them of using the IAEA General Conferences to “launch a campaign against Israel”.
He said that israel was committed to the IAEA principles regarding atomic energy and that israel “will establish an information centre in Beir Shaba (Ber Al-Sabaa) in coordination with IAEA to educate the public about atomic energy”.
Dr. Chorev used the occasion to criticize the Syrian atomic programme and to accuse the Syrian regime of “perpetrating crimes against humanity”.
He proceeded to accuse Iran of “repeating the same reports before the IAEA General Conferences and creating false information” about their atomic energy program, “using deception and concealment to buy time for developing its nuclear program”.
He said “the picture that the Iranian representatives are portraying regarding openness and transparency of their nuclear program … stands in sharp contradiction with Iran’s actual actions and the facts on the ground.”He criticized the moderate speech delivered by the head of the Iranian delegation to the IAEA during the opening session of 57th General Conference of the IAEA, without mentioning the name of Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Akbar Salehi, saying that the issue is not whether Iran “has nominated new envoys, modified its diplomatic vocabulary …, but whether Iran is addressing seriously and in a timely manner outstanding issues that have remained unresolved for too long” and claiming that the IAEA and the international community “are grossly abused by Iran”.
Dr. Chorev praised the coordination and co-operative relation between his government and the Palestinian Authority in issues regarding atomic energy, claiming that the dialogue started between Israel and the PA is supposed to “make reconciliation”.
it should be noted that in the past years, the Arab states sponsored resolution on Israeli Nuclear Capabilities (INC), calling on Israel to join the nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) and place all its nuclear facilities under IAEA safeguards.