S/PV.6036
6036th meeting
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 12.45 p.m.
New York
No-proliferation
Mr. Dabbashi (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) (spoke in Arabic): We wish to thank Ambassador Jan Grauls, Chairman of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) and representative of Belgium, for his valuable briefing, in which he reviewed the work accomplished by the Committee over the past 90 days.
Libya once again reaffirms the importance of intensifying international efforts to achieve a peaceful settlement of the dispute over the Iranian nuclear issue, in accordance with paragraph 15 of Security Council resolution 1803 (2008), on further enhancing diplomatic efforts to promote resumption of dialogue and consultations with Iran, with a view to seeking a comprehensive, long-term and appropriate solution to this issue that would allow for the development of all-round relations and fruitful cooperation with Iran based on mutual respect and international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear programme. In this context, we call on all parties to begin direct negotiations as soon as possible in order to achieve that goal.
Libya expresses once again its firm belief that all efforts to address non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament should be comprehensive and non‑selective and that all countries, without exception, should subject their nuclear facilities to the comprehensive safeguards regime of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). We express our regret that the Security Council has not devoted careful attention to the Israeli nuclear-weapon issue, despite the fact that Israel continues to refuse to accede to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and to subject its nuclear facilities to the IAEA safeguards regime. That makes it impossible to fulfil the aspirations of the peoples of the Middle East to establish a nuclear-weapon-free zone, in accordance with the resolution on the Middle East adopted at the 1995 Review Conference of the Parties to the NPT and the relevant General Assembly resolutions.
