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Disarmament Commission treats India and Pakistan equally

Disarmament panel puts India, Pak in same category The Economic Times 16 Dec 2009, A report of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament has proposed cutting down the world’s nuclear weapons from 23,000 to 2,000 by 2025 and suggested that all nuclear states should have a ‘no first use’ stance. The commission is actually the brainchild of Japan and Australia. But what has caught India’s attention is the strong criticism of its civilian nuclear programme and the nuclear deal. The report draws the conclusion that civilian nuclear expansion is only going to lead to nuclear proliferation. The other issue is that the report also puts India in the same category as Pakistan in spite of
India’s stellar record on non-proliferation. India is clubbed with Pakistan throughout the report……………
The report has pushed forward the NPT regime in view of the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal. “The problem has now been accentuated by the India-US deal, endorsed by the Nuclear Suppliers Group in 2008, to give India access, effectively, to the nuclear cooperation benefits of the NPT while making no significant commitments in return,” the report said.

Disarmament panel puts India, Pak in same category- Politics/Nation-News-The Economic Times

December 16, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons