China News Agency, Berlin, June 10. Vienna News: On June 10, the Board of Governors meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency was held in Vienna.
In response to the sophistry and confusion of right and wrong by Australia and other countries on the issue of US-UK-Australia nuclear submarine cooperation under the topic of "Other Matters", Ambassador Wang Qun, the Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations in Vienna, exercised the right of reply, and again criticized the US-UK-Australia nuclear submarine cooperation, urging them not to take the road of nuclear proliferation. Go further and further.
Wang Qun said that Australia's speeches on behalf of the United States, Britain and Australia ignored the important and continued to confuse right and wrong. It never answered the substantive questions raised by the international community and member states of the three countries' nuclear submarine cooperation, and always avoided the illegal nuclear weapons materials involved in the three countries' cooperation. transfer this essence.
This just confirms that the three countries are still deliberately concealing the information on the transfer of their nuclear weapons materials.
Wang Qun said that the cooperation of the three countries on nuclear submarines is an act of "three violations", violating the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), violating the agency's comprehensive safeguards agreement, and violating the additional protocol signed by Australia and the agency.
The three countries must face up to the continuing serious concerns of the international community, must face up to the supervision and reminder of the director general of the agency, and must give the international community an explanation.
Wang Qun pointed out that the top priority is that the three countries must earnestly fulfill their legal obligations on safeguards, and in accordance with the requirements of the comprehensive safeguards agreement and the additional protocol, timely and comprehensively report to the agency secretariat the situation of the three countries' nuclear submarine cooperation at all stages.
Otherwise, it is bound to affect the secretariat of the agency and the fulfillment of its Statute obligations.
At the same time, China also calls on the corresponding international and regional security mechanisms to respond to the three countries' nuclear proliferation violations against the NPT from a political perspective.
Wang Qun finally emphasized that China once again urges the three countries to stop the "three violations" and change their course, not to go further and further on the road of nuclear proliferation, not to become a destroyer of the global non-proliferation system, and not to go to the international community and all member states of the institution. opposite.
At the same time, China also calls on the vast number of member states of the agency to continue to pay close attention to the trend of nuclear submarine cooperation among the three countries, actively participate in relevant processes, and jointly defend the NPT with practical actions, maintain the international nuclear non-proliferation system, and maintain international peace and security.
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