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UNGA urges India, Pakistan and Israel to give up nuclear weapons | Business Standard News
IANS | United Nations
December 3, 2014 Last Updated at 10:44 IST
IANS | United Nations
December 3, 2014 Last Updated at 10:44 IST
India, backed by the United States, opposed a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution calling on New Delhi to voluntarily abandon its nuclear weapons. The resolution that also targeted Israel and Pakistan, however, passed overwhelmingly.
The US joined India to vote against a key part of the resolution on achieving a nuclear weapon-free world that called on India, Israel and Pakistan to immediately and unconditionally accede to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty as non-nuclear-weapon states and put all their nuclear facilities under International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards.
In plain language, this clause would have the three countries it targeted to just give up their nuclear weapons and ability to manufacture them.....