Jordan’s King Hussein charged Friday that Israel’s nuclear capabilities are a threat to the entire world.
Ambassador Abdullah Salah of Jordan, in a statement to the special General Assembly session on disarmament, said on behalf of the Jordanian monarch that Israel “has been building up its nuclear capabilities since the 1950s and is still continuing to develop and expand them to the extent that it now represents a terrible threat, not only to the Middle East region, but to the world as a whole.”
The king urged the United Nations to halt Israel’s alleged nuclear build-up.
“Jordan looks to the United Nations as the appropriate forum through which effective measures must be taken to ensure that the Middle East region is kept free of nuclear weapons in such a way that Israel’s military nuclear program is halted and its nuclear weapons eliminated,” the Jordanian envoy said.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir is scheduled to address the General Assembly session Tuesday.
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