Uzbekistan supports establishing nuclear-weapon-free zone in Middle East

“The problem of non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction remains one of the most urgent issues of the present day. Yet in 1993 Uzbekistan put forward the initiative on establishment of the Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia,” he said at the ceremony.

“This initiative found its practical embodiment in the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia signed by Uzbekistan and neighboring countries in 2006, as well as the Protocol on Negative Guarantees signed by five permanent members of the UN Security Council in 2014,” Mirziyayev noted.

He said that Uzbekistan stands for consistent widening of scales of nuclear-weapon-free zones and supports the idea of establishing a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East.