Secret shoppers

Article Abstract:

India has been searching for supplies of enriched uranium in Central Asia. This is an indication of growing international pressure by the nation's trade and investment partners to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to agree to the International Atomic Energy Agency's monitoring of all its nuclear plants. Most important for India has been the shift in policy by France and Russia, formerly the most flexible nuclear material and technology suppliers, to implement full-scope safeguards for all future supply agreements.

International trade

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Knocking heads: Japan enters South Asian nuclear debate

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Japan is wielding its economic aid to cajole India and Pakistan into accepting the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to draw China into multilateral talks on security in South Asia. Japan hopes that its large contributions to the region, which amounted to $1.6 billion in 1991, will ensure the success of this new initiative. The Japanese government would like to bring all three countries together to discuss security issues including the nuclear question.

China, Japan, International relations, Pakistani foreign relations, Indian foreign relations, Pakistan, Asia, Chinese foreign relations, Japanese foreign relations, South Asia

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Nuclear niceties: NPT holdout offers a fissile-materials ban instead

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India remains at odds with the US over the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty but is willing to sign the Fissile Materials Cut-Off Convention if all other countries will. The US wants to maintain the NPT in its present form, while India wants its limitations to apply to countries already in the so-called Nuclear Club. Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao's views on Chinese relations and on affairs in the state of Kashmir are also discussed.

Political aspects

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