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India, Russia express concern over safety of Nuclear Weapons in the region | Russian President Medvedev on Monday expressed concerns over the safety of nuclear weapons in Iran and other neighbouring countries. Making an apparent reference
to Pakistan, Russian President called for a tighter control over nuclear weapons
by the states. "We are interested in making the defense capabilities including
nuclear capabilities be under state control so that they would not be hostage
to all kind of radicals so that they could not be used to start some kind of large
scale conflict or threaten their immediate neighbours," said Medvedev. " As to
the terrorism and control over nuclear technologies of the world and including
the state of affairs in our neighbors this is a sensitive we have discussed this
with Indian Prime Minister we are interested to keep nuclear technologies under
very strict control on the part of IAEA," he added. With Taliban strengthening
its grip in Pakistan and recent attacks near the country's nuclear installations,
India has expressed fears that Pakistan's nuclear arsenal could fall into Taliban
hands. Manmohan Singh and Medvedev on Sunday had discussed this issue along with
other regional and global issues at an informal dinner meet. Indian Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh and Russian Preseident Medvedev made strong pitch against terrorism
emanating from Pakistan and the two leaders also discussed situation in Afghanistan.
" Both India and Russia have an interest in stable, prosperous and moderate Afghanistan
and we have agreed to regularly consult each other in this important area. We
have also agreed to enhance our cooperation to meet the grave challenges of terrorism
and religious extremism that emanate from our region and threaten both our society,"
Singh stated. Recently one of luxury trains travelling from Moscow to St. Petersburg
was bombed by Chechiyan terror outfit, Russia is also concerned about spread of
Islamic fundamentalism in Central Asian countries. Recalling Mumbai attacks, Medvedev
talked about the need to step up counter terrorism efforts. He said: " Terrorism
is terrible evil of this and last century. Russia has once again supported and
urged the international community to adopt Comprehensive convention on counter
terrorism and asked the world to take pin point actions against countries sheltering
terrorists." Both sides also decided to increase cooperation in counter insurgency
efforts like increased intelligence sharing , information gathering and also to
use instrumentalities to pressurize countries which give shelter or encouragement
to terrorist activities. |
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