WILL INDIA'S EXEMPTION UNDERMINE NONPROLIFERATION SYSTEM?
The Mainichi Daily News, September 8, 2008
The vote by the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to approve a deal to allow nuclear trade with India, which possesses nuclear weapons but is not a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), defies comprehension.
U.S. President George W. Bush reportedly personally campaigned to persuade nations that were holding out to the end to approve the deal. In the end all NSG members including Japan voted to approve nuclear trade with India. But after the vote was made in the closed session, there was no burst of applause, and silence descended on the meeting room.
The representatives of the NSG member nations may have had their misgivings that this vote would be the root of evil for future generations. We feel a strong sense of foreboding that U.S. pressure may have warped the international community's good sense with regard to the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.
The NSG had reinforced the nuclear nonproliferation system by adhering to the principle that nuclear fuel and nuclear technology would not be exported to nations which did not join the NPT. However, in a switch of policy, the U.S. decided to conclude a nuclear cooperation deal with India, and to open a path toward nuclear trade with India.
(...) [artículo aquí]
The Mainichi Daily News, September 8, 2008
The vote by the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to approve a deal to allow nuclear trade with India, which possesses nuclear weapons but is not a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), defies comprehension.
U.S. President George W. Bush reportedly personally campaigned to persuade nations that were holding out to the end to approve the deal. In the end all NSG members including Japan voted to approve nuclear trade with India. But after the vote was made in the closed session, there was no burst of applause, and silence descended on the meeting room.
The representatives of the NSG member nations may have had their misgivings that this vote would be the root of evil for future generations. We feel a strong sense of foreboding that U.S. pressure may have warped the international community's good sense with regard to the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.
The NSG had reinforced the nuclear nonproliferation system by adhering to the principle that nuclear fuel and nuclear technology would not be exported to nations which did not join the NPT. However, in a switch of policy, the U.S. decided to conclude a nuclear cooperation deal with India, and to open a path toward nuclear trade with India.
(...) [artículo aquí]
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