The Israel Mission to the UN has rejected a study published here on alleged Israeli nuclear armament, charging that “the term of reference of the group of experts set up to study the alleged Israeli nuclear armament was intended to prejudge in advance the outcome of the study.”
A group of five experts was appointed by the Special UN Session on Disarmament in 1978 to investigate Israel nuclear capabilities at the initiative of Iraq. In its report last week the group concluded that Israel possesses the ability to produce nuclear arms but said it could not determine whether Israel has already made an A-bomb.
In a statement issued here last Friday the Israel Mission recalled that the study was initiated by Iraq “which attempted to cover up in this manner its own military nuclear ambition and activity.” The Israeli statement also noted that “a report which draws upon technological and scientific aspects of nuclear capability was written by five experts, four of whom are political scientists while the only nuclear physicist happens to be an Arab.”
The Israeli statement reiterated Israel’s call for the establishment of a nuclear free zone in the Mideast by direct negotiations between the countries of the Mideast.
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