February 6, 2008 ☼ disarmament ☼ Foreign Affairs ☼ India ☼ international relations ☼ non-proliferation ☼ nuclear weapons ☼ Security
This is an archived blog post from The Acorn.
At IDSA’s tenth Asian Security Conference, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said
On the demand side, the best way to address the dilemmas in the nuclear domain is to focus our efforts on the goal of global nuclear disarmament…The vision of Shri Rajiv Gandhi continues to guide India’s approach to nuclear disarmament. Personalities such as Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, Sam Nunn and William Perry who were at the center of crafting nuclear policy and who thought that nuclear weapons were essential to the security of their state are having a rethink today. We welcome this development and hope it leads, as envisaged in the Rajiv Gandhi Action Plan, to a commitment by all states to a nuclear weapon free world. As a responsible nuclear weapon power, India is ready to play its part in the process leading to global, non-discriminatory and verifiable elimination of nuclear weapons. [MEA]
That’s exactly what my piece in this month’s Pragati argues.
Aside: Mr Mukherjee’s keynote speech covers a wide range of international security issues, but the name of one country is conspicuously absent. Such are the diktats of diplomacy.
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