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Krishna says India's 'principled' stand on CTBT won't change | External Affairs Minister S M Krishna on Friday said that India's "principled" stand on CTBT is not likely to change unless a number of other "developments" take place to address its concerns. During a high level conference on disarmament
addressed by UN General Secretary Ban Ki Moon, India and eight other countries
were asked to ratify the agreement so that it comes into force. "We have taken
a principled stand and so the question of India revisiting it depends on a number
of other developments that would address our concerns," Krishna said. Earlier,
Moon had said: "The CTBT is a fundamental building block for a world free of nuclear
weapons". "By establishing a global norm against testing, the CTBT has made a
significant contribution to the world community's efforts to prevent the proliferation
of nuclear weapons and to promote nuclear disarmament." India, which views the
NPT as flawed and discriminatory favouring nuclear powers, has made it known to
the Security Council that it cannot accept the "externally prescribed norms or
standards" on issues that were contrary to its national interests or infringe
on its sovereignty. "Nuclear weapons are an integral part of India's national
security and will remain so, pending non-discriminatory and global nuclear disarmament,"
India's Permanent Representative to the UN Hardeep Singh Puri said in a letter
to the Security Council on Thursday. On Wednesday, US President Barack Obama called
on countries that have not signed the NPT to comply fully with all their obligations.
"We have made it clear that the Security Council has both the authority and responsibility
to respond to violations of this treaty. Nations with nuclear weapons have the
responsibility to move towards disarmament and those without them have the responsibility
to forsake them," he had said. |
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