Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, at today’s UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, said Armenia remains firmly committed to fulfilling its obligations under the treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)  and that its upholding high standards of safety and security in the operation of its nuclear power plant.

Mirzoyan added that while Armenia is committed to observing the Conventional Arms Control regime in Europe, the regime has unwittingly allowed those with malicious intentions to cover up their wrongdoings.

“The results are well-known – the arms control regime failed to prevent the recurrence of the use of force, undermining the very foundations of stability it was meant to safeguard, Mirzoyan noted, alluding to the war in Ukraine.

He said that Armenia has submitted a written proposal to Azerbaijan on the establishment of mechanisms for reciprocal arms control and joint investigation of border incidents. 

Mirzoyan also called for the proper regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the military sector in compliance with existing international legal instruments.

Read Mirzoyan’s full remarks here.