(CNN) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left Sunday for
the United States to take part in a conference on nuclear
nonproliferation, a Foreign Ministry spokesman told state television.
Ahmadinejad will address the the United Nations Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference in New York on Monday,
spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told Iran’s News Network.
(CNN) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left Sunday for the United States to take part in a conference on nuclear nonproliferation, a Foreign Ministry spokesman told state television.
Ahmadinejad will address the the United Nations Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference in New York on Monday, spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told Iran’s News Network.
Ahmadinejad told reporters in Tehran before his departure that the NPT has failed.
“The biggest threat to the world today is the production and stockpiling of nuclear weapons,” he said.
“Unfortunately the [International Atomic Energy Agency] in the past 40 years has not been successful in its mission. We have no disarmament or nonproliferation and some countries have even procured the nuclear bomb during this period,” Ahmadinejad said Sunday.
A top Ahmadinejad adviser, Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi, said Saturday that the Iranian president planned to offer major proposals at the conference but that the plans would allow Iran to maintain its nuclear program, the IRNA officia… >>>
