Japan minister warns India against conducting nuclear tests

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Japan minister warns India against conducting nuclear tests


Japan's foreign minister warned India on Saturday against conducting any new nuclear tests, saying such a move would force a halt to any civilian nuclear cooperation between the two countries.

The warning came a day after India's cabinet approved a long-delayed draft law that will clear the way for foreign nuclear groups to build reactors in the 150-billion-dollar Indian atomic energy market.

Before leaving for his two-day visit to India, Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada said any civilian nuclear deal between the two countries needed a clause to define how Tokyo would respond to any nuclear test by New Delhi.

"Japan will have no option but to suspend our cooperation" in the event of a nuclear test by India, Okada told a news conference in New Delhi

The two countries launched talks in June on signing an atomic civilian cooperation agreement which will allow Tokyo to export nuclear power generation technology
and related equipment to energy-hungry India.

But survivors of the World War II US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have opposed the move, as India has developed nuclear arms without signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

India stunned the world in 1998 by staging nuclear tests, prompting a tit-for-tat response by rival Pakistan.

Okada did not mention Japanese calls for a clause in the pact dealing with any new nuclear tests by India but he earlier said in Tokyo that how the clause is incorporated will "depend on upcoming negotiations".

India's foreign minister S.M. Krishna told the joint news conference that "negotiations will continue quickly and that we will jointly work towards a good agreement which will result in 'win-win' for both India and Japan".

The Indian government said there was no deadline for concluding the agreement. Earlier reports had said the deal was expected to be signed next month.

India's parliament is expected to pass next week a nuclear liabilities bill which is part of a landmark atomic energy pact with the United States in 2008 that granted New Delhi access to foreign nuclear technology.

Okada earlier in the day held talks with Krishna to firm up bilateral ties.

"India-Japan relations have undergone a significant and qualitative shift in recent years," an Indian government statement said.

Both sides have expressed "resolve to enhance our mutually beneficial strategic and global partnership", the statement added.

The two sides also discussed economic cooperation, including a multi-billion-dollar Japanese loan for the Delhi-Mumbai freight corridor connecting northern cities with western ports.

Japan is the sixth-largest foreign investor in India and two-way trade totals more than 12 billion dollars.

After leaving India, Okada was slated to travel to Thailand for talks with Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and other senior leaders on Monday.

Japanese are some two-faced people eh? At first they themselves remain under blankets with US nukes and have the capability to make thousands themselves at short notice, while they expect other countries to remain at the mercy of their own master.

I want to know how many days Japan would last as an independent nation without US protection against PLA.

If they're not interested in a clean open-ended deal why the hell do they come for such string-bound agreements?

Anyway we'll see who does the talking when they get satisfied with their first contract and come for signing more. We are not an offensive country but if it is for the national security, we will conduct ANY test that is needed, with or without approval of the so-called powers.


स्वयं खडा होना आता नहीं कि दूसरों को भाषण देने चले आए ! :emot15:
 
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India got the data from the Soviet prior to NPT.

These holy crap like NPT, MCTR and all those was created with the india in mind, everything happened only after what india did, might be a mere coincidence, but i feel it other way around. Anyhow unkil will not loose his $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
you forgot FMCT, remember 1971 we fought a war in 1974 smiling Buddha that mean somewhere Indian govt must have had an active program to enrich,process,manufacture,test etc...
 

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its absolutely fantastic how a twist to the tale is given, the japanese foreign minister suggests "Japan will have no option but to suspend our cooperation", but the sensationalist chaps behind that particular website project it as a stern warning. what the heck man, here is a country which was nuked, the only country to have seen the worse of those nuke bombs and radiations, and some of them went on to face much worse since a few were direct victims of these nuke strikes twice. we as indians are so sensitive to what happened in bhopal that we are not ready to pass the nuclear liability bill, so it is but obvious that there is a very strong lobby against the very concept of nukes in that country.

rather than focusing on japan making a special exclusion for india on top of some very stiff resistance from with in, these chaps rather wanted to cook up a story and project, but then when india has already been made a special case by the NSG and finger pointing there wont earn much dividends, so why not steer up something. their foreign minister was simply addressing the concerns of his domestic audience, nothing more. but then a certain section of media breeds on such sensationalism, and nothing new really!
 
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Unfortunately we donot have much experience in this regard . Thats the reason many scientists were against Nuclear deal.
This is difficult to answer how much data is actually needed?? Many tests by USA and Russia were repetitive in nature even though they were counted as separate tests.
 

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in all this crap and sensationalism, the more important news is:

japanese make an exception for india, unlike any in the past. a first.
they agree to conclude CEPA by year end, which will come into force from year 2011.
bilateral trade to be increased by 10 fold, from present 12b usd.
 
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i dont know if its true but there were reports that if we sign FMCT then we can bargain it with US and ask for data available with it....can it be possible....??
I think USA may have given this only to 1 country- Israel. How does Israel reportedly have 250+ Nuclear warheads without doing 1 official test??
 

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Seriously how will any country exit india after constructing a nuke plant? India can ask them to leave if they will. Till then it will build a strategic nuke fuel reserve, would work on the thorium reactor which Inshallah will be operational in full swing in a few years. It will just let india add all the civil reactors to its military. The west can't leave india once they are in. India did the same with Candu. Only diff was back then we didn't have enough fuel, india is already in talks with various countries to create a big stock of uranium.
It is not the nuclear plant that will cause the problem, it is the nuclear fuel. India has very little indigenous uranium. Thorium has still not been perfected or so it is said.
 

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It is not the nuclear plant that will cause the problem, it is the nuclear fuel. India has very little indigenous uranium. Thorium has still not been perfected or so it is said.
Right Sir.
Thats why India signed the deal in the first place and quickly moved to secure uranium from countries like Niger. India is looking to build a strategic reserve of uranium to ward off any sanctions or disruption in supplies.

India will master the thorium cycle in a few years and we will have abundant fuel to power our nuke reactors.
 

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Japan has to make some noises to justify doing business with India even though we haven't signed NPT. In another 15 years, we can test on pakistan and still japan, oz et all will stand in line for our business.
 

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