The member at Libya’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, Ambassador Essam Bin Zaytoun, called on nuclear-armed states to eliminate their nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction through a clear, time-bound program.
This came in a speech delivered by Bin Zaytoun at the Conference on Disarmament held in New York, as Libya assumes the presidency of the Arab Group for this month. In his remarks, he urged for the redirection of increasing material and human resources currently allocated to weapons production towards funding global development.
He also called for the establishment of a zone free of nuclear, chemical, biological, and other weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East, and stressed the need to achieve this as soon as possible.
Bin Zaytoun conveyed the Arab states’ condemnation of the war and aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, as well as their denunciation of the nuclear threats made by a minister in the Israeli occupation government in November 2023, in which he threatened to drop a nuclear bomb on the Palestinian people in Gaza—considering such threats a grave danger to regional and international peace and security.