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US wants India to sign NPT along with Pak,Israel, N Korea
Lalit K Jha
Washington, May 6 (PTI) US wants India along with
Pakistan, Israel and North Korea to join the Nuclear
non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), a top Obama administration
official has said.
"Universal adherence to the NPT itself - including by
India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea - remains a
fundamental objective of the US," Rose Gottemoeller, Assistant
Secretary of State said in her opening remarks at the Third
Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2010 NPT Review
Conference being held at the UN headquarters in New York.
India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea are not
signatories to the NPT, which so far has been signed by as
many as 189 countries.
However, later she praised India's willingness to
proceed with a fissile material cut-off treaty in cooperation
with the United States and its willingness to pursue the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) as well as other lesser,
but important measures such as improving its export control.
Talking to reporters after her participation in the
meeting, Gottemoeller said the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal,
along with several other steps taken by New Delhi in the
recent past, has brought India closer to the NPT.
"So I would say that India is coming closer to the
non-proliferation regime, and that too is an important goal of
the US foreign policy," she said.
"I would say that with regard to India's agreement with
the US on peaceful nuclear uses that the US has been able to
agree with India to undertake a number of activities that
would bring it in closure cooperation with other countries in
the general non-proliferation regime," Gottemoeller said.
She was responding to a question on statements made by
certain countries at the meeting, which without mentioning
India were critical of the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal.
"The US consistent policy has been to support the
universality of the non proliferation treaty and that includes
India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea," she said.
However, the US official did not respond to a question
on what policies the Obama Administration wants to follow to
ensure that these countries sign the NPT.
Earlier, in her speech at the Preparatory Committee
meeting she said: "We must redouble our efforts to update IAEA
safeguards technologies and convince those NPT parties that
have not yet done so to bring into force the comprehensive
IAEA safeguards agreements".
US President Barack Obama in a message to the PrepCom
meeting recalled his speech against nuclear proliferation at
Prague on April 5 and asked governments to pursue common
ground, rather than focusing on differences.
Obama had said in Prague: "Rules must be binding.
Violations must be punished... The world must stand together
to prevent the spread of these weapons". PTI
Washington, May 6 (PTI) US wants India along with
Pakistan, Israel and North Korea to join the Nuclear
non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), a top Obama administration
official has said.
"Universal adherence to the NPT itself - including by
India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea - remains a
fundamental objective of the US," Rose Gottemoeller, Assistant
Secretary of State said in her opening remarks at the Third
Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2010 NPT Review
Conference being held at the UN headquarters in New York.
India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea are not
signatories to the NPT, which so far has been signed by as
many as 189 countries.
However, later she praised India's willingness to
proceed with a fissile material cut-off treaty in cooperation
with the United States and its willingness to pursue the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) as well as other lesser,
but important measures such as improving its export control.
Talking to reporters after her participation in the
meeting, Gottemoeller said the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal,
along with several other steps taken by New Delhi in the
recent past, has brought India closer to the NPT.
"So I would say that India is coming closer to the
non-proliferation regime, and that too is an important goal of
the US foreign policy," she said.
"I would say that with regard to India's agreement with
the US on peaceful nuclear uses that the US has been able to
agree with India to undertake a number of activities that
would bring it in closure cooperation with other countries in
the general non-proliferation regime," Gottemoeller said.
She was responding to a question on statements made by
certain countries at the meeting, which without mentioning
India were critical of the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal.
"The US consistent policy has been to support the
universality of the non proliferation treaty and that includes
India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea," she said.
However, the US official did not respond to a question
on what policies the Obama Administration wants to follow to
ensure that these countries sign the NPT.
Earlier, in her speech at the Preparatory Committee
meeting she said: "We must redouble our efforts to update IAEA
safeguards technologies and convince those NPT parties that
have not yet done so to bring into force the comprehensive
IAEA safeguards agreements".
US President Barack Obama in a message to the PrepCom
meeting recalled his speech against nuclear proliferation at
Prague on April 5 and asked governments to pursue common
ground, rather than focusing on differences.
Obama had said in Prague: "Rules must be binding.
Violations must be punished... The world must stand together
to prevent the spread of these weapons". PTI