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NEW DELHI: An international commission on disarmament and non-proliferation has criticised the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal and clubbed India
and Pakistan in the same category.
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.
Sources pointed out that the report was an attempt to bring in the non-proliferation regime through a document on disarmament. “The disappointment is that it is going in the direction of the non-proliferation treaty in the guise of shoring up nuclear disarmament,” sources said.
Incidentally, India was represented at the commission by former National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra, who was one of the 15 commissioners. Though India has found many ideas in the report acceptable, it has also found the effort to bring in an NPT regime disquieting and disappointing. Incidentally, Mr Mishra has been one of the strongest backers of the Indo-US nuclear deal.
India has been labelled one of the ‘three elephants’ outside the nuclear club. “Recognising the reality that the three nuclear-armed states now outside the NPT — India, Pakistan and Israel — are not likely to become members any time soon, every effort should be made to achieve their participation in parallel instruments and arrangements which apply equivalent non-proliferation and disarmament obligations,” the report said.
The report advocates applying equivalent non-proliferation and disarmament obligations for the three countries. Sources said the advocation of non-proliferation ‘disciplines’ for non-NPT states ignores India’s existing commitments and responsible behaviour in comparison with NPT five and Pakistan.
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.
The report also says the credibility of the NSG has also been put at risk because of the 2008 exemption to India. The report advocates delegitimisation of nuclear weapons and suggests that the eight nuclear states adopt a no-first-use policy. It endorses a nuclear weapons convention as the preferred instrument for disarmament.
Disarmament panel puts India, Pak in same category- Politics/Nation-News-The Economic Times
and Pakistan in the same category.
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.
Sources pointed out that the report was an attempt to bring in the non-proliferation regime through a document on disarmament. “The disappointment is that it is going in the direction of the non-proliferation treaty in the guise of shoring up nuclear disarmament,” sources said.
Incidentally, India was represented at the commission by former National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra, who was one of the 15 commissioners. Though India has found many ideas in the report acceptable, it has also found the effort to bring in an NPT regime disquieting and disappointing. Incidentally, Mr Mishra has been one of the strongest backers of the Indo-US nuclear deal.
India has been labelled one of the ‘three elephants’ outside the nuclear club. “Recognising the reality that the three nuclear-armed states now outside the NPT — India, Pakistan and Israel — are not likely to become members any time soon, every effort should be made to achieve their participation in parallel instruments and arrangements which apply equivalent non-proliferation and disarmament obligations,” the report said.
The report advocates applying equivalent non-proliferation and disarmament obligations for the three countries. Sources said the advocation of non-proliferation ‘disciplines’ for non-NPT states ignores India’s existing commitments and responsible behaviour in comparison with NPT five and Pakistan.
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.
The report also says the credibility of the NSG has also been put at risk because of the 2008 exemption to India. The report advocates delegitimisation of nuclear weapons and suggests that the eight nuclear states adopt a no-first-use policy. It endorses a nuclear weapons convention as the preferred instrument for disarmament.
Disarmament panel puts India, Pak in same category- Politics/Nation-News-The Economic Times
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Good step that they have started talking about India, Pakistan and Israel in the same breath viz a viz NPT.
