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Turkey wants nuclear-free Middle East

a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East is the essential backbone of our policy.”

Turkey opposed to nuclear proliferation in Middle East, Issues like Iran should be solved through diplomacy, minister says gulfnews :

• By Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief
• December 6, 2010

Manama: Turkey’s foreign affairs minister has said that his country is opposed to nuclear proliferation in the Middle East and Gulf region.”We do not want to see nuclear proliferation in our region and we do not want to see any nuclear weapons power in our region,” Ahmet Davutoglu told the Manama Dialogue security conference. “Therefore, a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East is the essential backbone of our policy.”
Problems and disagreements, like in the case of the Iranian nuclear programme, should be solved through diplomacy, he said.

“More diplomacy, more transparency, more international effort, more contributions from the Iranian side and from the international community are needed for a solution. Therefore, we are very happy that next week the nuclear talks will restart between P5+1 and Iran. We work very hard to contribute to this process and we will continue to support it,” he said.

Davutoglu insisted that the nuclear issue was not only a regional issue.

“The nuclear issue is a global issue. If we do not have a fair approach to this nuclear issue based on international law, it is difficult to solve it,” he said…….

gulfnews : Turkey opposed to nuclear proliferation in Middle East

December 6, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general