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IAEA conference adopts Egypt's resolution on nuclear safeguards across the Middle East
September 18, 2026 at 09:56 AM
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The IAEA General Conference has adopted Egypt's annual resolution calling for comprehensive safeguards on all nuclear facilities in the Middle East.
- The 70th session of the IAEA General Conference adopted Egypt's resolution on applying the agency's comprehensive safeguards system to all nuclear facilities in the Middle East.
- The resolution received support from 112 states, with no nation voting against it.
- Egypt's Foreign Ministry stressed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty's centrality and called for full implementation of its legal obligations.
- The seventh UN conference on establishing a Middle East zone free of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction is scheduled for November 2026 at UN headquarters in New York.

