But I remind thee, they be murderous hands when they're empty.

The Kingdom renews its call to establish a zone free of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East and the Gulf region.

Our intelligence network and detection technology must surely be flawless, constantly updated and improved.

A viable way of achieving non proliferation goals in the Middle East as well as in South Asia would be to establish nuclear weapon free zones.

That is no less true for our being aware that the Vance Owen and Owen Stoltenberg plans are less than perfect and that an quot ideal quot peace will be impossible to achieve.

Djibouti also wishes to stress that the Middle East and Africa, which are among the regions of the world where tensions are highest, should be made free of all types of weapons of mass destruction.

In this context, we are greatly encouraged by the adoption of the IAEA General Conference resolutions relating to the establishment of nuclear weapon free zones in Africa and the Middle East.

We are pleased to note that all nuclear weapon States are now Parties to the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) South Africa has abandoned its nuclear weapons programme and Latin America as well as Africa may soon emerge as nuclear weapon free continents.