India puts N-proliferation, terror on table at summit
Indrani Bagchi, TNN, Apr 15, 2010, 04.18am IST
Tags:India|terror|Nukes
WASHINGTON: India took the twin dangers of clandestine proliferation and international terrorism to the nuclear security summit. Both issues, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, found prominent resonance at the 47-nation gathering of heads of state and government here which turned Washington into a garrison, killed a citizen and gave President Barack Obama a good PR bump, even if it did little to enhance his ratings.
The communique and "work plan" broke little new ground, but asked nations to lock down nuclear materials under their control and make sure they did not end up in the hands of terrorists and "non-state actors", and asked states to adhere to "existing" mechanisms. But for India, it was a summit that went a step further in ensuring that international nuclear documents like the one issued are NPT-neutral, that the global nuclear architecture can be built upon away from a treaty that India believes has not only been flawed and discriminatory, but also one that has failed the basic tenets it had set out to achieve.
The PM therefore had reason to be satisfied at the outcome. US administration sources told TOI that India had been one of the most active participants in the run-up to the summit, while Indian government sources said they would now push hard to make the new global centre a "buzzing" international reality. The doors that opened for India with the nuclear deal are slowly but surely bringing it into the nuclear mainstream.
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