Saudi Arabia Will Not Stop Building or Acquiring Nukes
CNN News asked
the Arabian ambassador Adel Al-Jubeir whether Saudi Arabia would ever
build nulear weapons, he said that the subject is not for them to
discuss publicly. “This is not something that I can comment on, nor
would I comment on,” he added.
The
discretion of the ambassador in ruling out a military nuclear programme
may rekindle the concerns that the autocratic monarchy has its eye on a
nuclear arsenal.
Pakistan
and Saudi Arabia maintain close relations and sometimes said to have a
special relationship. At present, the two countries have close military
ties and conduct joint exercises.
The
Saudi Arabian administration already possesses medium-range ballistic
missiles as well in the form of the Royal Saudi Strategic Missile Force. In addition to this, it has a civilian nuclear programme of the kind that Iran says it wants to obtain.
A
senior Saudi told the Times newspaper in 2012 that it would be
completely politically unacceptable to have Iran with a nuclear
capability and not the kingdom.
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deal with Iran on its nuclear programme is possible, according to the
US and other Western allies. However, Iran denies that it is building
nuclear weapons.
At
present, Saudi’s military operation against the moving Shia Houthi
group in Yemen has been joined by Egyptian, Jordanian, as well as
Moroccan forces.
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