EastDay.com: IAEA head calls for Israel's give-up of nuclear weapons

Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has called on Israel to relinquish its nuclear weapons as part of a general peace agreement in the Middle East, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Friday.

Israel should follow the path taken by South Africa, the first and only country to part from its nuclear cache, when its weapons were destroyed under IAEA supervision in 1989, ElBaradei told the newspaper in an interview.

ElBaradei noted that in spite of Israel's policy of not acknowledging possession of nuclear weapons, "we operate under the assumption that Israel has nuclear arms. Israel has never denied this."

The senior UN diplomat said he recommends that Israel join the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

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IAEA head calls for Israel's give-up of nuclear weapons: newspaper