India has urged the UN to encourage member countries, possessing nuclear weapons, to hold a “meaningful dialogue”, saying that the proposed move will help achieve the goal of nuclear disarmament by building mutual trust and confidence.
In a written submission to the UN General Assembly over the weekend, New Delhi said that it was important for the nuclear powerful countries to participate in a ‘Conference on Disarmament’ of the comprehensive nuclear weapons convention. India’s permanent representative at the world body Syed Akbaruddin told the UNGA that nuclear powers should try to prohibit their possession, development, production, acquisition, testing, stockpiling, transfer and use or threat of use of nuclear weapons.

Syed Akbaruddin

At the same time, Akbaruddin informed the UN that India is ready to negotiate a convention on the prohibition of the use of nuclear weapons. “There is a need for a meaningful dialogue among all states possessing nuclear weapons to build trust and confidence and to reduce the salience of such weapons in international affairs and security doctrines,” he stressed.
The career diplomat explained that India, as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), has always been committed to the goal of a ‘nuclear-weapon-free world’ by completely eliminating nuclear weapons. India made the submission in May as part of a UN report, although it was made public on Saturday. The report includes submissions of many other countries.

UNGA

In its submission, India clearly said that the goal of nuclear disarmament could only be attained by a step-by-step process “underwritten by a universal commitment” on the basis of an agreed ‘global and non-discriminatory’ multilateral framework. The South Asian nation further requested all the nuclear powers to try to reduce the importance of nuclear weapons in the security doctrines before negotiating a global agreement with others and to respect the “no-first-use” policy (especially against non-nuclear-weapon states).
As per the terms of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the US, France, Britain, Russia and China are considered as “nuclear-weapon states” (NWS). Other nuclear powerful states are India, North Korea and Pakistan.

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