Posted by Animesh Roul on November 5, 2009. Filed under India, United States, Weapons of Mass Destruction.

The joint declaration at the US-EU 2009 Summit urges India and other non signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to sign the pact and ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). India considers the NPT regime as discriminatory and unfair.

The Annex -3 of the declaration says:

We reaffirm our commitment to seeking a safer world for all and to creating the conditions for a world without nuclear weapons, in accordance with the goals of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty. We are convinced that intermediate steps on our path towards this objective can also represent significant increases in security for all.

The declaration calls upon all states that are not parties to the NPT to accede as non-nuclear weapon states ‘to achieve universality’. Voicing commitment to the Non proliferation regime, the US and the European Union promise to work actively for the successful outcome of the 2010 NPT Review Conference. It says:

We will work proposals on all three pillars of the NPT- (Non proliferation, disarmament and Peaceful use of nuclear energy) presented by the EU, which can inform our efforts to develop a forward looking action plan at the review conference.

For complete declaration of EU-US Summit (Washington, 3 November 2009), Read here.