China today asserted its opposition to India\u2019s membership bid to the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), saying there is no change in its stand and efforts were on to forge \u201cconsensus\u201d among the 48-member elite nuclear club about the admission of new members.<\/p>\n
\u201cChina\u2019s position on this remains unchanged,\u201d Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told media here responding to Russian deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov\u2019s remarks in New Delhi yesterday that Moscow was speaking to China for India\u2019s membership into the NSG.<\/p>\n
\u201cChina supports the NSG to follow the principle of consensus through consultation through transparent and fair intergovernmental process to deal with this issue,\u201d Geng said.<\/p>\n
China, a key member of the NSG, has been stridently opposing India\u2019s bid primarily on the grounds that New Delhi is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Its opposition has made India\u2019s entry into the group difficult as the NSG works on the principle of consensus. China\u2019s repeated stonewalling of India\u2019s membership bid in the NSG has become a major stumbling block in bilateral relations.<\/p>\n
After India\u2019s application for entry into the elite group which controls nuclear trade, Pakistan, China\u2019s all-weather ally, too had applied with the tacit backing of Beijing. Pakistan\u2019s application came despite serious allegation of proliferation of nuclear technology by its scientist A Q Khan.<\/p>\n
Ryabkov yesterday said that Russia is unwavering in its support to India\u2019s membership of international nuclear control regimes and Moscow was speaking to China in this regard. Asked for his reaction to Ryabkov\u2019s comments, Geng said all the members of the NSG supported the two-step approach-to find non-discriminatory solution that applies to all non-NPT countries then on that basis discuss the application of the non-NPT counties.<\/p>\n
He said the focus is on some non-NPT countries who hope to join the group in the capacity of nuclear weapons free countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the same time they will not sign the Comprehensive Safeguard Agreement (CSA) of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)\u201d which is mandatory under the NPT, he said. \u201cIn this circumstance if we agree for the above-mentioned applications, it will have two consequences, that is to recognise the nuclear weapons status of the Non-NPT countries. Secondly, it will cause other than nuclear weapons free countries to follow suit not to sign CSA with IAEA,\u201d he said. \u201cThis will subvert the NPT and whole international non- proliferation regime,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
China suggested that the NSG can pool the wisdom and further explore on this issue and find a solution which can be accepted by all relevant parties and can uphold the international non-proliferation regime with NPT as a cornerstone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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