This is especially true of the Middle East, where Israel benefits from special treatment, possesses an enormous nuclear weapons arsenal with which it threatens the entire region, and refuses to accede to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons while pursuing dangerous policies of aggression, invasion and occupation, with the international community looking on in silence. My country deplores the postponement of the special conference on the establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear and all other weapons of mass destruction, which had been due to take place in Finland in 2012.