There could not be a better Monday morning for India than today. India, the nation of 1.25 billion plus people, has formally joined an exclusive club of countries controlling exports in missile technology. This is even more important as China is trying its very best to become a member of MTCR for over a decade but has failed to attain so.
Hey, China! You better keep playing your little games and say no to our NSG membership, while we already reach where it matters more and keep you waiting!
S Jaishankar, Indian Foreign Secretary signed onto the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), aimed at preventing the unchecked proliferation of missiles and their delivery systems.
In a presser issued soon after signing the accession document in the presence of the ambassadors of France, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, the Ministry of Externa Affairs thanked the other 34 members of the MTCR group for supporting its inclusion.
“India’s entry into the regime as its thirty-fifth member would be mutually beneficial in the furtherance of international non-proliferation objectives,” the statement said.
India’s admission in the elite MTCR is the next step for India in legitimising its nuclear energy and missile programs, post 1998 atomic tests that alarmed the international community.
As per the MTCR principles, it restricts the proliferation of missiles, rocket systems, unmanned air vehicles, or drones, and the technology for systems capable of carrying a payload of 500 kilograms for at least 300 kilometers, as well as systems intended for the delivery of weapons of mass destruction.
India signed a landmark civil nuclear deal with US in 2008 when it was given some access to nuclear materials and technologies and since then, has been pushing for its inclusion in the various elite groups controlling export of nuclear materials and regulate technologies relating to conventional, nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
The article first published on www.lafdatv.com
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