TEHRAN – Iran is making efforts to prepare a draft convention in campaign against the production and proliferation of nuclear weapons, Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Mahdi Akhoundzadeh has said.

“Preparing a draft convention on fight against nuclear weapons at a global level is part of our efforts at an international conference on nuclear disarmament and (their) non-proliferation,” Akhoundzadeh said during a press conference on Wednesday.
Iran plans to hold a conference on nuclear disarmament at the end of spring.
Commenting on the Baath regime’s chemical bombardments of Iranian cities in the 1980s and Iran’s then efforts, which led to the establishment of a comprehensive international convention on fight against chemical weapons, Akhoundzadeh said Iran is now trying to help the world get rid of WMDs including nuclear weapons.
He said that the Non-Proliferation Treaty will be extended next year and from then on media outlets should zero in on NPT’s Article 6 in which nuclear weapons states are required to dismantle their nuclear weapons