The Jewish state is suspected of possessing a small atomic arsenal, but it has never officially admitted to having a nuclear-weapons program and is not a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (nuclear states India, Pakistan and North Korea have also declined to sign).
The draft resolution also calls for all states that are not members of the NPT - Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea - to join the NPT as non-nuclear powers.
This latest deal exonerates India and undermines the argument that Iran and North Korea should not have nuclear weapons.
We must increase our efforts to restrain the spread of nuclear weapons and missiles, from North Korea to India and Pakistan.
From China and North Korea, to India, Pakistan, and countries in the Middle East, more and more nations are seeking to strengthen their regional influence by enhancing their nuclear capability.
Well, how is this agreement now between this country and India going to effect what has been an international campaign to get Iran and also North Korea to give up their nuclear programs?
Beijing is playing a role in the Kashmir coflict between India and Pakistan, and has been stepping up contacts with other neighbors ranging from Russia to North Korea.
These banned nuclear trade, even civilian deals, with countries like India and Pakistan, but also Israel and now North Korea, that resist full international safeguards on all their nuclear industry.
Does anyone really believe that disarming the United States will actually "devalue" nuclear weapons and lead nations like India and Pakistan -- to say nothing of North Korea, China or Russia -- to give theirs up?
In terms of overall Olympic medal count, India, with 26, falls behind North Korea and Ethiopia and is tied with Azerbaijan.
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Indeed, the argument that ratification would discourage North Korea, Iraq, Iran, India and Pakistan from acquiring nuclear weapons produced laughter in the Senate cloakroom.
In this case, we have observed that 'norms' have not been persuasive for North Korea, Iraq, Iran, India and Pakistan, the very countries whose actions we seek to influence through a CTBT.
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Born in part, it appears, of an excessive CIA confidence in the effectiveness of various arms control regimes, George Tenet's agency had shown itself to have missed evidence of WMD-related developments in North Korea, India, Pakistan, Iran and the PRC.
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Although much of the world has co-operated over North Korea and Iran, everyone is competing over India and Pakistan to make things worse (see article).
General Surayud Chulanont, the prime minister in Thailand's military-backed government, suggested the creation of a regional forum to solve Myanmar's crisis, comprising ASEAN, India, China and the UN, modelled on the six-party talks on North Korea.
Osama bin Laden and his followers are reinvigorated by the news from almost every part of the planet that a U.S.-induced subprime mortgage crisis has engulfed the world and thrown some 50 million out of work from North America to Europe to the Middle East to Pakistan and India, to Singapore, China, South Korea and Japan.
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