Cairo, Dec 4, 2019, SPA -- The 55th meeting of the Arab Senior Officials Committee on Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) was chaired by the representative of Iraq, Abbas Kazem Obeid here today. Director of the Department of Arms Control and Disarmament of Arab League, Fadi Hanna Isaiah said in a statement today that the meeting is to evaluate the work of the conference held last month in New York under the title "Establishment of of a Nuclear Weapons Zone Free and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East" which was held due to a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly. "The Arab strategic position is to free the Middle East from all nuclear weapons and support the right of states to peaceful uses of nuclear energy and any efforts to denuclearize the Middle East", Isaiah said. --SPA 19:54 LOCAL TIME 16:54 GMT 0044 www.spa.gov.sa/w1222399