NPT-LD INDIA 2LAST

NPT-LD INDIA 2LAST

"We have taken a principled stand and and so the
question of India revisiting it depends on a number of other
developments that would address our concerns," Krishna said
emphatically.

Earlier, Moon said that "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," he added.

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 sovreignty.

Questioning the role of the UN in enforcing treaties
like NPT, India also made it clear that it will not join the
NPT as a non-nuclear weapon state.

"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. PTI VSC
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