New Delhi: With UNSC asking non-NPT nations
to sign the treaty, the CPI(M) on Friday said its stand has been
vindicated as it had warned of "external pressures" on India
in the aftermath of the Indo-US civil nuclear deal.
It also asked the government to stick to its own position
on the treaty, saying India should not be a party to it as it
was discriminatory.
"At the time of the Indo-US nuclear deal itself, one of
our objections was that it is not really nuclear commerce, but
there is going to be external pressures put on India on these
issues of NPT, CTBT, FMCT," CPI(M) polit bureau member Sitaram
Yechury said.
He said India had not signed these treaties because they
were "discriminatory".
"We warned that there will be the sort of pressure and
that is precisely what is happening. India should stick to its
own position saying these treaties were discriminatory," he
added.
Bureau Report
First Published: Friday, September 25, 2009, 18:37