WASHINGTON: The United States had taken steps to strengthen its ties with Pakistan and India to advance its regional goals and these moves should not be seen as **US accepting the South Asian nations as nuclear weapon states under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the Press Trust of India (PTI) quoted a senior State Department official as saying. **
“We have taken steps recently with both countries (India and Pakistan) to strengthen relations in order to advance our regional goals, enhance the fight against terrorism, and to secure cooperation from both countries on export controls. These steps should not, however, be taken to suggest that we have accepted the status of either country as a nuclear weapon state under the NPT. We have not,” PTI quoted John S Wolf, US assistant secretary of State for Non-proliferation at the third session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2005 Review Conference of the Treaty in New York.
He said the US would not reward either country for their decisions to acquire nuclear weapons or for the 1998 tests. “Our focus in South Asia has been and remains on preventing actions that would undermine the global non-proliferation regime and regional stability be it through nuclear testing, deployment, nuclear use, or proliferation to other countries,” the agency quoted Wolf as saying. “We hope that India, Israel, and Pakistan would eventually join the treaty as non-nuclear weapon states, he said, adding that India and Pakistan remained ineligible under the US law and policy for any significant assistance to their nuclear programmes,”
Wolf said the US also urged Pakistan to continue to take steps necessary to end the activities of the dangerous nuclear proliferation network spawned by AQ Khan. “It is up to Pakistan and numerous other countries in which this multinational network operated to take the necessary measures to shut down the network,” he added, according to PTI.
US won’t accept India, Pakistan, as Nuclear states
Thats right folks the world according to the amerikkkans is that they can have nuclear bombs by the thousand so can its poodle Britain along with Russia because they to big to mess with, but all you poor nations don`t even think you can have these kind of weapons because you are uncivillised !
