Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei announced on Tuesday that the draft, tabled jointly by Iran, China, Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Belarus, is intended to defend the integrity of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
“To defend the integrity of the NPT, Iran along with China, Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Belarus have submitted a draft resolution on ‘Prohibition of all forms of attack and threats of attack against nuclear sites and facilities under IAEA safeguards’,” he said in a post on his X account.
“As our draft reconfirms, all countries enjoy ‘inalienable right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes’ and are ‘entitled to effective guarantees against any attack or threat of attack’,” the spokesman explained.
“It also reaffirms that all States must refrain from attacking or threatening to attack peaceful nuclear facilities in other countries,” Baqaei said, adding, “These principles must be upheld; it is high time that the international community acted firmly to prevent the normalization of lawlessness.”