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| Obama to encourage India |
| Obama to encourage India, Pak to sign CTBT, resolve Kashmir
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 25-September-2008
3:54:8 AM |
| Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama says if elected he would encourage India and Pakistan to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and resolve the Kashmir problem to reduce nuclear dangers in South Asia.
Accusing President George Bush's policies towards the two neighbours for letting "grave nuclear risks to grow in South Asia since their 1998 nuclear tests," he offered these as part of a five point plan to reduce nuclear risks in the region.
"The best way to reduce nuclear risks in South Asia is to reduce incentives to test and deploy new nuclear weapons," Obama told the journal Arms Control Today when asked how would he work to reduce the risks posed by India's and Pakistan's nuclear arsenals and programmes.
"My two amendments in the Hyde Act sought to accomplish these goals," he said explaining what have been called "poison pill" and "killer amendments" to the enabling US law on the India-US civil nuclear deal.
"Just as I will work with the US Senate to secure ratification of the CTBT at the earliest practical date, I will prioritise diplomatic efforts with India and Pakistan to encourage them to move beyond their moratorium on nuclear testing toward the ratification of the treaty."
Obama eventually voted for the Hyde Act and now supports the nuclear deal, but one of his rejected amendments considered a deal breaker by New Delhi opposed giving India the right to build strategic fuel reserves for its imported nuclear reactors.
"The Bush administration's policies toward both India and Pakistan have allowed grave nuclear risks to grow in South Asia since the 1998 nuclear tests," Obama said in his replies to a presidential questionnaire by Arms Control Today on arms control and non-proliferation issues.
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