India And NSG Membership
India has still not gained entry into the NSG, due to repetitive frivolous objections raised by a few led by China. Overall it does not make much of a difference to India. In fact NSG itself may breakup or become irrelevant. Sooner than later both USA and the European Union will have to cooperate with India in this matter and then China will be left out.
In September 2008, the NSG members had agreed to give India a “clean waiver” from its existing rules, which forbid nuclear trade with a country which has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)…….which India will never as it is a biased treaty.
while Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev acknowledged the “significant role of the NSG in maintaining the international non-proliferation regime, he considers NPT as the cornerstone of the global security architecture. Though at the same time the inalienable right of every NPT Member State to use nuclear energy for peaceful purpose remains.
However India will not sign NPT as US,Russia, China, France can never be more equal than India in any respect whatsoever.
Now it seems some commonsense is being used by NSG members as a favour to India, the Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG) on Friday said to be considering “all aspects” to waive off conditions that prohibit New Delhi from nuclear trade with its members States.
“The NSG continues to consider all aspects of the implementation of the 2008 Statement on Civil Nuclear Cooperation with India and discussed the NSG relationship with India,” reads a statement issued after the conclusion of 48-nation grouping’s plenary meeting.
The statement holds significance as the NSG in 2011 had adopted new guidelines on the transfer of sensitive nuclear technology that would effectively nullify the “clean” waiver India received from the cartel in 2008 as far as the import of enrichment and reprocessing equipment and technology (ENR) is concerned.
What every NSG member should know that for its nuclear weapons, India needs nothing from them. However for cheaper and cleaner energy it does need the latest technology. In case it is denied then India will keep burning all its coal and NSG members can keep weeping for the environment.
