New York/ Information Office/ 14 October 2015/ The State of Qatar has confirmed its firm position regarding disarmament issues in the world, calling on the Member States of the United Nations General Assembly to meet their disarmament obligations, especially nuclear weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction. Qatar also demanded the need to take measures that will help to build trust and prevent outer space becomes a conflict zone, considering that its position in this file comes from its commitment to its responsibilities for the maintenance of international peace and security, and its belief in the need to support all efforts for disarmament in the world according to the principles of the United Nations and its noble message to maintain international peace and security. This came in a statement of the State of Qatar delivered by HE the Third Secretary of the Permanent Mission of Qatar to the UN Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Thani to the First Committee of the 70th session of the General Assembly during the general debate on all disarmament and international security related agenda items. HE said that the State of Qatar has acceded to many of the major international conventions in the field of disarmament, notably the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) and other treaties, to support the international efforts to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons. He explained that since its inception in 2004, Qatar's National Committee on Arms Embargo has carried out its mandated role in advising the competent government bodies in all matters relating to the arms embargo in order to achieve the objectives of the relevant international conventions to which the State of Qatar acceded.