ammonnews.net

Ammon News - Petra - Prime Minister Dr. Abdullah Ensour met in his office with Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the CTBTO Nuclear-Test- and his accompanying delegation who is visiting the Kingdom to announce the start of preparations for hosting the second time exercise " OSI field integrated " WMO in Jordan at the end of next year .

During the meeting the Prime Minister pointed out that Jordan was one of the first countries to which has signed and ratified the Convention on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The meeting was attended by the President of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission Khalid Touqan and general manager of the Natural Resources Authority, Dr. Moses Zyoud
The prime minister stressed that Jordan is counting on Jordan's nuclear program for peaceful purposes in reducing the cost of energy and to diversify the sources, stressing that he would be sensitive to the highest standards of nuclear security and peace.
He stated that Jordan’s position and policy is fixed on calling for disarmament of weapons of mass destruction and to achieve security, peace and global stability.

For his part, the Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the CTBTO Nuclear-Test on the cooperation between the Jordanian government and the organization and its stance toward non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction .

He noted that the victory of Jordan to host this exercise, which came after a competition with several other countries. This is a success for Jordan on all political, diplomatic and logistic fronts.

He said the exercise simulates reality and does not use the materials or nuclear weapons, pointing out that the exercise measure the readiness of the organization to check out any nuclear tests wherever they are.