TEHRAN (FNA)- Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Hassan Shoukry underlined that if Iran and the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, France and Britain plus Germany) strike a final deal, their agreement would help balance power equations and political stability in the region.


"Cairo believes that striking a possible final agreement by Iran and the G5+1 can help bring balance of power to the Middle East …," Shoukry said, addressing a press conference on the sidelines of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in New York on Tuesday.


Earlier today, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Egyptian counterpart vowed to do their best to persuade the NPT Review Conference to approve the Nuclear Free Middle-East Plan as a legally binding undertaking.


In a meeting on the sidelines of the conference, the two sides underlined the importance of the plan for the reinvigoration of peace and stability in the region and underlined the need for both Tehran and Cairo to have closer cooperation in the ongoing NPT conference for adopting close and unified positions.


On Monday, Zarif in a statement read at the 2015 NPT Review Conference called for a Middle East free from the weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), and urged the international community to exert pressure on Israel to dismantle its nuclear weapons and respect the NPT.


Zarif made the remarks on behalf of the member-states of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in New York.


"The NAM heads of state or government in their Tehran Summit Declaration demanded that Israel, the only one in the region that has neither joined the NPT nor declared its intention to do so, to renounce possession of nuclear weapons, to accede to the NPT without precondition and further delay, to place promptly all its nuclear facilities under IAEA full-scope safeguards and to conduct its nuclear related activities in conformity with the non-proliferation regime," the Iranian foreign minister said in his statement.


By Fars News Agency