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India will not sign 'discriminatory' NPT: Tharoor | Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor
has said that India will not adhere to any treaty such as the Nuclear Proliferation
Treaty (NPT), and will not sign it as long as it is discriminatory. Tharoor was
reacting to a call by US President Barack Obama, who while chairing a historic
meeting of the UN Security Council on Thursday appealed the nuclear weapon states
to scrap their deadly arsenal. Obama also called upon all countries to abstain
from conducting a nuclear test explosion and join the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
"We feel that no country should have nuclear weapons, but as long as some countries
have nuclear weapons we will not accept a notion, so called non-proliferation
which says that some countries are entitled to have them and others are not, that
is discriminatory and that is not acceptable to India," said Tharoor. Tharoor
was in Jaipur in connection with release of his book "Shadows across the playing
field - 60 Years of India-Pakistan Cricket", which he authored with Shaharyar
Khan of Pakistan. Apart from India , the other two countries, which have refused
to sign the NPT, are Israel and Pakistan . Reacting to Pakistan President Asif
Ali Zardari's address in the UN General Assembly seeking an early resumption of
peace talks with India , Tharoor said Pakistan has to take the initiative by acting
against the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks. "As far as the normal relations
are concerned between both the countries ( India and Pakistan ) our government
is not the one that is hesitating. We have said it very clearly that if Pakistan
takes one step forward, to quote our Prime Minister, we will go more than half
way but the problem is that one step has not been taken and we are waiting for
that to happen," Tharoor said. Following the Mumbai terror attacks in November
last year, India put on hold the five-year-old peace process, saying Pakistan
must act decisively against the militants India holds responsible for the assault. |
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