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Pak, US discuss how to stop spread of weapons in South Asia
Islamabad, May 20: Pakistani and US officials met today to discuss ways to limit the spread of conventional, chemical and biological weapons in South Asia, a foreign ministry statement said.
Islamabad, May 20: Pakistani and US officials met today to discuss ways to limit the spread of conventional, chemical and biological weapons in South Asia, a foreign ministry statement said.
US assistant secretary of state for arms control Stephen G Rademaker and Pakistan's acting foreign secretary Tariq Usman Hyder met for talks in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, the statement said.
"Both sides exchanged views on regional and strategic security issues and reviewed the progress of arms control treaties to which the two countries were signatories,'' the statement said, without giving any other details.
Rademaker's visit comes after Pakistan allowed a three member team of international inspectors into a fertilizer factory in southern city of Karachi last month to certify that it was not being used to produce chemical weapons.
Pakistan said the inspection was ``absolutely routine, " and that it would help the country build credibility as a member state of the chemical weapons convention, which it signed in 1993.
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"Both sides exchanged views on regional and strategic security issues and reviewed the progress of arms control treaties to which the two countries were signatories,'' the statement said, without giving any other details.
Rademaker's visit comes after Pakistan allowed a three member team of international inspectors into a fertilizer factory in southern city of Karachi last month to certify that it was not being used to produce chemical weapons.
Pakistan said the inspection was ``absolutely routine, " and that it would help the country build credibility as a member state of the chemical weapons convention, which it signed in 1993.
Bureau Report