The general-director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukio Amano, has sent a letter to the foreign ministers of all the signatories to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty asking them to study the possibility of concluding a resolution allowing Israel to sign up to the NNT, reports RIA Novosti.
The resolution of the participants in the NNT in 1995 called on a controlled zone to be established in the Middle East, free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, as well as systems for transporting them.
Israel, India, Pakistan and since 2003 North Korea, refuse to join the treaty, in order not to be bound to make their military programs public.
On the eve of the current conference in New York on fulfilling the NNT, the idea of turning the Middle East into a zone free of nuclear weapons has been fully supported by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.
