UN General Assembly
1976

61. I should like to draw attention to the attempt at nuclear blackmail in the Middle East region and the danger which this entails. I refer here to reports emanating from Israel, and carried by some sections of the mass media in various parts of the world, about Israel's possession of nuclear weapons. What is uppermost in our minds is to prevent the introduction of nuclear weapons into the area and their proliferation in order to ward off the danger of nuclear war. It was with this end in view that Egypt joined Iran in an initiative at the twenty-ninth session of the General Assembly resulting in a resolution calling for the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East as an effective measure to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the area. That initiative met with unanimous and universal support.