‘Inclusion of Pakistan, India, Israel and N Korea needed for N-disarmament’
* Nuclear official says new body hopes to recruit ‘like-minded states’ to cement NPT
SYDNEY: The world may need a new nuclear weapons treaty that includes India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea, an Australian official said on Tuesday.
Former Foreign minister Gareth Evans, who was appointed chairman of a new international body for nuclear disarmament, said nuclear powers who currently refuse to join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) had to be included in a new process if the world were to abandon nuclear weapons.
“We’ve got to bring in India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea - all those that are presently with weapons but outside that framework,” Evans told Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio from Romania.
“What you’re trying to do is create a framework in which rather than being outsiders, these guys once again become insiders. That may mean thinking about a whole new nuclear weapons treaty,” he added.
Like minded: Evans’ appointment as head of the Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Commission was announced by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Monday.
Rudd said the new body hoped to recruit “like-minded countries” to strengthen the NPT.
The 190-nation NPT was established in 1980 to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and technology and to further the goal of nuclear disarmament. Review conferences are held every five years to assess implementation of the treaty.
“The objective is to take the work already done ... and to seek to shape a global consensus in the lead-up to the NPT review process in 2010,” Rudd told reporters in Kyoto after he announced the establishment of the commission during a speech at a university.
Rudd said the Australia-led commission, which he hoped other countries would join, would present recommendations to an international conference of experts at the end of 2009.
QUOTE(OmaR UK @ Jun 10 2008, 08:52 PM) 
‘Inclusion of Pakistan, India, Israel and N Korea needed for N-disarmament’
* Nuclear official says new body hopes to recruit ‘like-minded states’ to cement NPT
SYDNEY: The world may need a new nuclear weapons treaty that includes India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea, an Australian official said on Tuesday.
Former Foreign minister Gareth Evans, who was appointed chairman of a new international body for nuclear disarmament, said nuclear powers who currently refuse to join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) had to be included in a new process if the world were to abandon nuclear weapons.
“We’ve got to bring in India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea - all those that are presently with weapons but outside that framework,” Evans told Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio from Romania.
“What you’re trying to do is create a framework in which rather than being outsiders, these guys once again become insiders. That may mean thinking about a whole new nuclear weapons treaty,” he added.
Like minded: Evans’ appointment as head of the Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Commission was announced by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Monday.
Rudd said the new body hoped to recruit “like-minded countries” to strengthen the NPT.
The 190-nation NPT was established in 1980 to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and technology and to further the goal of nuclear disarmament. Review conferences are held every five years to assess implementation of the treaty.
“The objective is to take the work already done ... and to seek to shape a global consensus in the lead-up to the NPT review process in 2010,” Rudd told reporters in Kyoto after he announced the establishment of the commission during a speech at a university.
Rudd said the Australia-led commission, which he hoped other countries would join, would present recommendations to an international conference of experts at the end of 2009.
* Nuclear official says new body hopes to recruit ‘like-minded states’ to cement NPT
SYDNEY: The world may need a new nuclear weapons treaty that includes India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea, an Australian official said on Tuesday.
Former Foreign minister Gareth Evans, who was appointed chairman of a new international body for nuclear disarmament, said nuclear powers who currently refuse to join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) had to be included in a new process if the world were to abandon nuclear weapons.
“We’ve got to bring in India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea - all those that are presently with weapons but outside that framework,” Evans told Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio from Romania.
“What you’re trying to do is create a framework in which rather than being outsiders, these guys once again become insiders. That may mean thinking about a whole new nuclear weapons treaty,” he added.
Like minded: Evans’ appointment as head of the Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Commission was announced by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Monday.
Rudd said the new body hoped to recruit “like-minded countries” to strengthen the NPT.
The 190-nation NPT was established in 1980 to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and technology and to further the goal of nuclear disarmament. Review conferences are held every five years to assess implementation of the treaty.
“The objective is to take the work already done ... and to seek to shape a global consensus in the lead-up to the NPT review process in 2010,” Rudd told reporters in Kyoto after he announced the establishment of the commission during a speech at a university.
Rudd said the Australia-led commission, which he hoped other countries would join, would present recommendations to an international conference of experts at the end of 2009.
What a farse¡ The present TNP provides for those 5 countries with nuclear weapongs to get rid of them as a parallel contribution to other countries rennouncing them. So they want a tnp whereby the possession of atomic weapons is kept as a exclusive PRIVILEGE for those tchosen five, and why should anybody agree to that? The five have not fulfilled their part of the tnp. What is needed is not a new tnp, but fulfillment of the one in force.
QUOTE(OmaR UK @ Jun 11 2008, 03:52 AM)
‘Inclusion of Pakistan, India, Israel and N Korea needed for N-disarmament’
* Nuclear official says new body hopes to recruit ‘like-minded states’ to cement NPT
SYDNEY: The world may need a new nuclear weapons treaty that includes India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea, an Australian official said on Tuesday.
Former Foreign minister Gareth Evans, who was appointed chairman of a new international body for nuclear disarmament, said nuclear powers who currently refuse to join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) had to be included in a new process if the world were to abandon nuclear weapons.
“We’ve got to bring in India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea - all those that are presently with weapons but outside that framework,” Evans told Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio from Romania.
“What you’re trying to do is create a framework in which rather than being outsiders, these guys once again become insiders. That may mean thinking about a whole new nuclear weapons treaty,” he added.
Like minded: Evans’ appointment as head of the Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Commission was announced by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Monday.
Rudd said the new body hoped to recruit “like-minded countries” to strengthen the NPT.
The 190-nation NPT was established in 1980 to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and technology and to further the goal of nuclear disarmament. Review conferences are held every five years to assess implementation of the treaty.
“The objective is to take the work already done ... and to seek to shape a global consensus in the lead-up to the NPT review process in 2010,” Rudd told reporters in Kyoto after he announced the establishment of the commission during a speech at a university.
Rudd said the Australia-led commission, which he hoped other countries would join, would present recommendations to an international conference of experts at the end of 2009.
* Nuclear official says new body hopes to recruit ‘like-minded states’ to cement NPT
SYDNEY: The world may need a new nuclear weapons treaty that includes India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea, an Australian official said on Tuesday.
Former Foreign minister Gareth Evans, who was appointed chairman of a new international body for nuclear disarmament, said nuclear powers who currently refuse to join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) had to be included in a new process if the world were to abandon nuclear weapons.
“We’ve got to bring in India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea - all those that are presently with weapons but outside that framework,” Evans told Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio from Romania.
“What you’re trying to do is create a framework in which rather than being outsiders, these guys once again become insiders. That may mean thinking about a whole new nuclear weapons treaty,” he added.
Like minded: Evans’ appointment as head of the Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Commission was announced by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Monday.
Rudd said the new body hoped to recruit “like-minded countries” to strengthen the NPT.
The 190-nation NPT was established in 1980 to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and technology and to further the goal of nuclear disarmament. Review conferences are held every five years to assess implementation of the treaty.
“The objective is to take the work already done ... and to seek to shape a global consensus in the lead-up to the NPT review process in 2010,” Rudd told reporters in Kyoto after he announced the establishment of the commission during a speech at a university.
Rudd said the Australia-led commission, which he hoped other countries would join, would present recommendations to an international conference of experts at the end of 2009.
This was the reply of indian PM today
India will not sign CTBT, says Manmohan
Thursday, June 12, 2008 0009 PST GEO.tv
NEW DELHI: India will not sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) that prevents it from conducting further nuclear tests and impinges on its sovereignty, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday.
Addressing new recruits of the Indian Foreign Service at a function, the prime minister also stressed that the nuclear deal India had signed with the US protected its "national interests".
"Despite the fact that we are not a signatory to the NPT (Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty), and we have also said that if the CTBT came into being we will not sign it, there is no pressure from the US on India to sign the NPT or any other international arrangement of that sort to enter into nuclear cooperation for civil energy," Manmohan Singh said.
Though it has not signed the CTBT, India has put a moratorium on further tests since the nuclear tests at Pokhran in May 1998. The Left parties and opposition parties have warned that if India signs the nuclear deal with the US, it would be prevented from conducting further tests.
The prime minister's remarks on the nuclear deal that has run into stiff opposition from the Left parties appears to be another attempt to clear some of the apprehensions.
"For the first time we got the US to appreciate that India is a nuclear weapons state, that India has the right to develop nuclear power to protect its strategic interests, and that it is a decision that must be made by the people of India not subject to any international supervision or any international interference," Manmohan Singh added.
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