India has said there is no question of its joining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as a nuclear weapon state, saying nuclear weapons are an integral part of its national security.
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Brazil is a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty since 1998 as a non-nuclear weaponsstate.
And we recognized the value of national negative security assurances -- assurances that the United States and other nuclear powers have made that we will not threaten -- use or threaten to use nuclearweapons against other state -- non-nuclear weapon states who are in full compliance with their NPT, nuclear non-proliferation obligations.