IAEO für eine atomwaffenfreie Zone im Nahen Osten / IAEO: "... establishing a NWFZ in the Middle East"
Generalkonferenz verabschiedet Resolution / Resolution adopted on 20 September 2007 during the eight plenary meeting
Nordkorea wurde von der Generalkonferenz der IAEO am 20. September 2007 dazu aufgerufen, sein Atomprogramm offen zu legen, seine Anlagen irreversibel stillzulegen und mit der Internationalen Atomenergiebehörde (IAEO/IAEA) zusammenzuarbeiten. Welche Rolle die IAEO bei diesen nächsten Schritten Nordkoreas spielen wird, ist jedoch noch nicht klar.
Eine von arabischen Staaten eingebrachte Resolution mit dem Ziel, alle Atomanlagen im Nahen/Mittleren Osten unter IAEO-Kontrolle zu stellen, wurde ebenfalls am 20. September 2007 von der Generalkonferenz der IAEO (Internationale Atomenergiebehörde) in Wien verabschiedet. Sie erhielt jedoch keine Unterstützung der westlichen Staaten. Die jedes Jahr in ähnlicher Form verabschiedete Resolution hat das implizite Ziel, Israel zur Unterzeichnung eines Inspektions-Abkommens mit der IAEO bewegen. Außerdem soll eine atomwaffenfreie Zone im Mittleren Osten geschaffen werden.
Fast die gesamte EU enthielt sich der Stimme, weil Ägypten im letzten Moment seinen Entwurf verschärft hatte. Die Resolution fordert zum ersten Mal Staaten in der Region dazu auf, "keine Atomwaffen herzustellen, zu testen oder sonst wie zu erwerben", und sie nicht zu stationieren. Die USA und Israel lehnten die Resolution ab. Israel kritisierte die neuen Passagen. Die Sponsoren der Resolution hätten kein Interesse an einer Konsensfindung gezeigt, kritisierte der israelische Vertreter die arabischen Staaten. Die Resolution habe somit "keinen Wert" für sein Land. Israel besitzt Atomwaffen, bestätigt diese Tatsache aber nicht öffentlich. Ein weiterer Resolutionsentwurf über Israels Nuklearpotenzial und -bedrohung wird nicht eingebracht, wie ein arabischer Diplomat mitteilte.
Nach: Der Standard - Online, 23. September 2007
Im Folgenden dokumentieren wir die Resolution zum Nahen Osten (englisch).
GC(51)/RES/17
Application of IAEA safeguards in the Middle East
Resolution adopted on 20 September 2007 during the eight plenary meeting
The General Conference,[1]
(a) Recognizing the importance of the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons – both globally
and regionally – in enhancing international peace and security,
(b) Mindful of the usefulness of the Agency's safeguards system as a reliable means of
verification of the peaceful uses of nuclear energy,
(c) Concerned by the grave consequences, endangering peace and security, of the presence in
the Middle East region of nuclear activities not wholly devoted to peaceful purposes,
(d) Welcoming the initiatives regarding the establishment of a zone free of all weapons of
mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, in the Middle East and earlier initiatives regarding
arms control in the region,
(e) Recognizing that full realization of these objectives would be promoted by the
participation of all States of the region,
(f) Commending the efforts of the Agency concerning the application of safeguards in the
Middle East and the positive response of most States in concluding a full-scope safeguards
agreement, and
(g) Recalling its resolution GC(50)/RES/16.
1. Takes note of the Director General's report in document GC(51)/14;
2. Affirms the urgent need for all States in the Middle East to forthwith accept the application of
full-scope Agency safeguards to all their nuclear activities as an important confidence-building
measure among all States in the region and as a step in enhancing peace and security in the context of
the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone (NWFZ);
3. Calls upon all parties directly concerned to consider seriously taking the practical and appropriate
steps required for the implementation of the proposal to establish a mutually and effectively verifiable
NWFZ in the region, and invites the countries concerned which have not yet done so to adhere to
international non-proliferation regimes, including the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons, as a means of complementing participation in a zone free of all weapons of mass destruction
in the Middle East and of strengthening peace and security in the region;
4. Further calls upon all States of the region, pending the establishment of the zone, not to develop,
produce, test or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons or permit the stationing on their territories or on
territories under their control, of nuclear weapons or nuclear explosive devices, or to pursue actions
that would undermine the goal of establishing the zone;
5. Invites all States in the region to take measures, including confidence-building and verification
measures, aimed at establishing a NWFZ in the Middle East;
6. Urges the nuclear-weapon States and all other States to render assistance in the establishment of
the zone and at the same time to refrain from any action that would hinder efforts aiming at its
establishment;
7. Takes note of the importance of the bilateral Middle East peace negotiations and the multilateral
working group on Arms Control and Regional Security in promoting mutual confidence and security
in the Middle East, including the establishment of a NWFZ;
8. Requests the Director General to continue consultations with the States of the Middle East to
facilitate the early application of full-scope Agency safeguards to all nuclear activities in the region as
relevant to the preparation of model agreements, as a necessary step towards the establishment of a
NWFZ in the region, referred to in resolution GC(XXXVll)/RES/627;
9. Calls upon all States in the region to extend their fullest cooperation to the Director General in
the fulfilment of the tasks entrusted to him in the preceding paragraph;
10. Calls upon all other States, especially those with a special responsibility for the maintenance of
international peace and security, to render all assistance to the Director General by facilitating the
implementation of this resolution; and
11. Requests the Director General to submit to the Board of Governors and the General Conference
at its fifty-second (2008) regular session a report on the implementation of this resolution and to
include in the provisional agenda for that session an item entitled “Application of IAEA safeguards in
the Middle East”.
[1] The resolution was adopted with 53 votes in favour, 2 against and 47 abstentions (roll call vote).
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