According to Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the United States should dismantle its nuclear bases around the world as a step to create a nuke-free world.
"Dismantling of nuclear weapons stationed in the military bases in the US and its allies around the world, including Germany, Italy, Japan and the Netherlands," President Ahmadinejad said in an address before the 2010 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) at the UN headquarters in New York on Monday.
"Those who used nuclear weapons for the first time in history are the most detested and disgraceful people in the world," he said, adding that nuclear arms are "the most disgusting and shameful kind of weapons in the world."
The United Sates, despite being a signatory to the NPT, is the "main suspect" in the stockpiling, spread and threatening of other nations with nuclear weapons, the Iranian president said.
Ahmadinejad noted that "possessing nuclear weapons is nothing to be proud of," criticizing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for adopting a double standard toward nuclear-armed countries and those seeking nuclear energy.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon opened the review conference, held every five years to strengthen the non-proliferation regime, at the UN headquarters.
Ahmadinejad, who is the only head of state attending the summit, said world powers should set a deadline to create a nuke-free world, calling on the UN to rebrand the NPT as the "Disarmament NPT."
The Iranian president, who described as "hazardous" the production and stockpiling of nuclear weapons by world powers, criticized the United Nations for its inability to establish sustainable security for the world against nuclear weapons.
He stressed that nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation have not materialized, saying the US should be blamed for proliferation of nuclear weapons.
World powers, he said, should live up to their obligations under the NPT.
Despite all diplomatic formalities delegates of the United States, Britain and France have walked out of a UN summit as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was delivering his speech.
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