PM Modi meets Chinese Prez in Tashkent; NSG membership on agenda
June 23, 2016  16:11
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Just In: Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) on sidelines of SCO summit.

During his talks with the Chinese leader, Modi is expected to seek Beijing's support for India's membership in NSG.

China has been making ambivalent statements on India's bid for NSG membership amid clear indications that it was unrelenting in its opposition. 

While making some right noises of playing "constructive" role on the issue of memberships of India and Pakistan, China maintained that the matter was not on the agenda of the plenary. 

Here too, Beijing clubbed the two sub-continental neighbours despite the marked difference in their nuclear non-proliferation track record.

India's bid for full membership in NSG, if granted, would tip the balance of power in South Asia against Pakistan. India has been pushing for membership of the bloc for last few years and had formally moved its application on May 12. 

The NSG had granted an exclusive waiver for India in 2008 to access civil nuclear technology after China reluctantly backed India's case based on the Indo-US nuclear deal.
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