Cairo/ Information Office/ 18 April 2017

 The 41st meeting of the committee of senior Arab officials in charge of the issues of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction kicked off Tuesday at Arab League headquarters in Cairo.

The State of Qatar is taking part in the meeting with a delegation headed by HE Sheikh Ali bin Jassim Al-Thani, Qatar's ambassador to Austria and the permanent representative to the international organizations in Vienna. The delegation also includes Mr. Yousef bin Sultan Yousef Laram, the acting director of the Foreign Ministry's Department of International Organizations.

The three-day meeting will discuss the implementation of the recommendations of the 40th meeting of the committee and examine the recommendations contained in the report of the secretary general on the outcomes of the panel of the wise on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.

The meeting will also discuss the preparations for the conference of the parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), due to be held in Vienna in May, as well as preparations for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conference, scheduled for September and the evaluation of the U.N. negotiating conference on a binding instrument to ban nuclear weapons.