May 28, 2010
Global Security Newswire
India and Japan have agreed to establish a panel to weigh the potential for pursuing a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement, the The Hindu reported yesterday (see GSN, May 25).
"We discussed responsible nuclear energy policies. You could says this is the first step towards cooperation," one source said.
To advance such an arrangement, though, Tokyo would expect New Delhi to sign the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and follow through on pledges it made in a September 2008 letter to Nuclear Suppliers Group member nations, according to The Hindu. Japan and other members of the nuclear export control regime agreed that month to permit India to purchase civilian nuclear fuel and technology from abroad, even though the South Asian country possessed nuclear weapons outside the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (see GSN, Sept. 8, 2008).
The nations must overcome multiple "hurdles" to reach an agreement on nuclear trade, the newspaper reported.
“We have not really decided whether to start negotiations,” one source told the newspaper (Sandeep Dikshit, The Hindu, May 27).
Source: http://gsn.nti.org/gsn/nw_20100528_3838.php
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