AMN/ NEW YORK
India has called for a meaningful dialogue among all states possessing nuclear weapons to build trust and confidence and for reducing the salience of atomic weapons in international affairs.
Speaking at the high-level plenary meeting to commemorate and promote the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons in New York on Tuesday, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Syed Akbaruddin, said India remains committed to the goal of a nuclear weapons free world and the complete elimination of nuclear weapons consistent with the highest priority accorded to nuclear disarmament.
Akbaruddin said, New Delhi stands ready to commence negotiations in the Conference on Disarmament on a comprehensive Nuclear Weapons Convention on the lines of the Chemical Weapons Convention, the only comprehensive and internationally verifiable treaty so far banning an entire category of weapons of mass destruction and providing for their elimination.