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The panel said the reality is that India, Pakistan and
Israel would not sign up to the NPT and this meant "every
effort should be made to achieve their participation in
parallel instruments and arrangements which apply equivalent
non-proliferation and disarmament obligations".
"Provided they satisfy strong objective criteria
demonstrating commitment to disarmament and non-
proliferation... these states should have access to nuclear
materials and technology for civilian purposes on the same
basis as an NPT member," the report said.
"I think it's pretty self-evident that the ban on
supplying uranium to India is a lost cause," commission co-
chairman and former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans
was quoted as saying by 'The Age'.
Rudd and his then Japanese counterpart Taro Aso set up
the commission 18 months ago amid concerns that the treaty was
ineffective in dealing with controversial nuclear programmes
of North Korea and Iran.
The panel also called on the nuclear powers to cut their
arsenals of warheads from 23,000 to 2000 by 2025, to take them
off hair-trigger alert status and to adopt "no first use"
doctrines.
Rory Medcalf, Lowy Institute's programme director for
international security, said "this report is very supportive
of the nuclear energy renaissance."
"Australia has to be more actively engaged in the civil
nuclear energy revival globally if we are going to be a
credible player in the non-proliferation environment". PTI