Persistent procedural hurdles created by one country: India

June 24, 2016 16:09

With NSG rejecting its membership bid, an upset India today said one country persistently created procedural "hurdles" during the discussions on its application in the 48-nation grouping, in a clear reference to stiff Chinese opposition.

External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup also asserted that India's participation in the NSG would have further strengthened nuclear non-proliferation regime and made global nuclear commerce more secure.

NSG, at the end of its two-day plenary in Seoul, declared its "firm support" for the "full, complete and effective" implementation of the NPT as the cornerstone of the international non-proliferation regime, ruling out any exception to India.

However, India maintained that there was no contradiction between the NPT and India's closer engagement with with the NSG.

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