P2 Ahmadinejad Opening Speech at Iran nuclear summit (2)

Ahmadinejad to give opening speech at Iran nuclear summit

TEHRAN — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will give the opening speech at a weekend nuclear disarmament conference to be attended by 24 foreign and deputy foreign ministers, official media reported.

"Ahmadinejad is due to give the opening address at the conference," which has as its theme "Nuclear Energy For All, Nuclear Weapons For No-one," state news agency IRNA said on Friday.

Fourteen foreign ministers and 10 deputy ministers, as well as representatives from regional and international organisations were expected to participate in the two-day gathering.

The names of the countries represented were not given in the report, but European officials are not likely to attend.

Iran criticised the 47-nation nuclear disarmament summit hosted in Washington earlier this week by US President Barack Obama, on the grounds the United States holds one of the world's largest stocks of nuclear weapons.

At the biggest US nuclear summit in over six decades, Obama pressed China and other UN Security Council skeptics to back a fourth set of sanctions against Iran for its controversial uranium enrichment programme that Western states say masks a drive for atomic arms.

Tehran counters that it is entitled to enrich uranium as a Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) member and strongly denies it wants nuclear weapons.

"At the Tehran conference, we will discuss nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and the use of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, which are the bases of the Non-Proliferation Treaty," Iran's atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency on Friday.

Salehi has also said in recent days that the conference would serve as preparation for the next NPT review meeting in New York early next month, which Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki plans to attend.

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[Revelutioner]

Ahmadinejad is right. He is telling the truth to the world.

USA is the only country who used Nuclear Weapon in Human History. USA Should be shameful on this!

I agree with the slogan: "Nuclear Energy for everyone - Nuclear Weapon for no one"

[antekification]

If obama could get the noble price, ahmadinejad should get it in 2010.

[Ramtin745]

i am a Iranian but know this USA used atomic bomb when there was a world war but IRANIAN GOVERNMENT trying to get the nuclear bomb as guaranteeing card that they will not be attacked by west if they keep killing and put people in jail because of freedom of expression not for a war.They know well that they cannot match USA and Europe power and thats all tere is to it

[blackraven2488]

I could care less if iran has nuclear technology long as its used the right way. If there leader is stupid enough to start a nuclear war then let him. We all know that when it comes down to it, eastern countries will never survive nuclear attacks. So let the idiot launch so the west can launch back and wiped iran off the map.

[AnnAAngel1564]

The only honest human being i know and they dont like him for this reason, simular to my situation. This is a true democracy unlike the rest of the acting presidents,this one speaks from his heart with honesty and truth.

[munabhai786]

America should lead America, not the world. Iran should be able to do for Iranian's what it(as a government) think's is in the best interest of the people and the country, which USA and UK leader's claim to do but don't!

[navidbigham]

True,True...