Not seeking NSG membership as a gift: India to China

January 19, 2017 18:58

Hitting back at China, the ministry of external affairs on Thursday said that India is not seeking NSG membership as a gift, and its record on non-proliferation record.

"India is not seeking NSG membership as a gift, we are seeking it based it on our non-proliferation record," MEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup said,

Swarup's was commenting on China's statement which said that the admission of non-NPT signatories in the Nuclear Suppliers Group cannot be a "farewell gift" for countries to give to each other, after the outgoing Obama administration asserted that Beijing was an "outlier" in the efforts to make India a member of the elite nuclear club.

"Regarding India's application to the Nuclear Suppliers Group, regarding non-NPT countries admission to the NSG, we have made our position clear before so I will not repeat it," Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying told a media briefing in Beijing, reacting to remarks by United States Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Nisha Desai Biswal, on the issue.

"Clearly there is one outlier that needs to be addressed and that is China," Biswal had said on India's NSG membership bid.

"I just want to point out that NSG membership shall not be some kind of (a) farewell gift for countries to give to each other," Hua said, taking a dig at the Obama administration.

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