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India will not join nuclear non-proliferation treaty: US
A top US official said Washington would not push New Delhi to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) until it is ratified by the American Senate.
Updated : Apr 07, 2010, 10:25 PM IST
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The US today said India is not going to join the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) "for quite some time", but wanted New Delhi to work with the Obama administration to strengthen the non-proliferation regime.
A day after the US underlined its determination to strengthen the nuclear non-proliferation regime, a top US official said Washington would not push New Delhi to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) until it is ratified by the American Senate.
Appreciating India’s principled opposition to the NPT, Robert J Einhorn, special US adviser non-proliferation and arms
control, said that New Delhi is unlikely to join the pact.
"India's not going to join the NPT for quite some time, if at all. We understand that. But we want India to work with us in strengthening the nonproliferation regime," Einhorn told foreign journalists in Washington.
"US and India have increasingly become partners in this area of dealing with the global proliferation threat, with the threat of nuclear terrorism," Einhorn said.
"We talk about these issues on a bilateral and on a multilateral basis with India quite frequently," he said in response to a question.
Einhorn said the administration "appreciates and understands" India's attitude toward NPT.
"It's a long-standing attitude, it's a position of principle. What's especially important to us is that India behave in a responsible manner. And it has behaved in a responsible manner," he said.
Einhorn made it clear that the White House would not push India to sign CTBT until it is ratified by the Senate.
"Once we have ratified, we'll be in discussions with India about how to bring this important treaty into force," he underlined.
In terms of the CTBT, the administration will press hard for Senate ratification of the treaty, and "then we will work with other countries to bring it into force".
"Bringing it into force means that the US and India and Pakistan and China and a number of other countries must ratify it. And we will be in discussions with India (once it is ratified by the Senate)," Einhorn said.
