Iran to host nuclear disarmament conference in April: spokesman

An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Iran will host a nuclear disarmament conference in April in Tehran, the state IRIB TV reported Wednesday.

"A conference on nuclear and weapons of mass destruction disarmament dubbed 'Nuclear Energy for All, Nuclear Weapons for None' is to be held on April 17-18 in Tehran," Ramin Mehman-Parast was quoted as saying.

The conference will discuss ways to reach the goal of a world without nuclear weapons as well as supervisory methods, said Mehman-Parast.

Prominent political and scientific figures from different countries will attend the conference, according to IRIB.

In December, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for the nuclear disarmament of the United States and Israel, saying that the U.S. government with nearly 8,000 atomic warheads and Israel with about 400 atomic warheads should be disarmed, according to the semi-official Fars news agency's report.

Iran has rejected U.S. and other Western claims that Tehran is making nuclear bombs.

Source: Xinhua