India calls for global nuclear disarmament

  • 10/10/2004

  • Tribune (New Delhi)

Calling for complete nuclear disarmament within a time-bound framework and establishment of non-discriminatory control regimes, India has demanded that nuclear weapons states immediately de-alert and de-target such arms, enter into a legally binding commitment on no-first use atomic weapons against non-nuclear weapons states. "As long as nuclear weapons exist, the threat of use of nuclear weapons, accidental or inadvertent, will remain. Only global and complete disarmament, within a time-bound framework, can totally eliminate the danger of a nuclear war,' Indian delegate Anand Sharma, MP, told a United Nations committee.Maintaining that the growing danger of terrorists acquiring WMD, related materials and technologies had added a new and more menacing dimension to the traditional danger of a nuclear war, he said the new challenges could be effectively dealt only through non-discriminatory regimes.