The Syrian Arab Republic declared its willingness to participate in the conference and has supported the efforts of the meeting facilitator, as have all the States in the region except Israel. Israel has refused to attend, offering fabricated excuses that bear no relation to the subject of the conference. We call on the international community to bring pressure to bear on Israel to join the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, eliminate its nuclear arsenal and their delivery systems, and thereafter place all its nuclear facilities under a comprehensive safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency. Security and stability in the Middle East will not be achieved as long as Israel possesses nuclear weapons