N-pact bid fails
NZPA-Reuter Islamabad A bid by Pakistan to persuade six south Asian neighbours to promise not to build nuclear bombs has foundered on Indian objections, diplomats said. They said Pakistan wanted a commitment to forswear nuclear weapons included in a declaration to be made on Saturday by the heads of Government of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
But India, at a Foreign Ministers’ meeting to prepare for the summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (S.A.A.R.C.), refused to alter its position that nuclear disarmament was a global issue to be tackled globally.
A senior Indian official said his country also objected to a regional pact that excluded China, one of the five nuclear powers. India and China fought a brief border war in 1962. A senior official said the seven Foreign Ministers had agreed on a compromise which would express S.A.A.R.C.’s desire to see a region free of nuclear weapons without making it an obligatory commitment.
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