China violates NSG rules with N-supply to Pakistan: Report

August 01, 2016 08:47

While China continues to hail the nuclear non-proliferation treaty as the cornerstone of global non-proliferation regime, Beijing itself has violated the consensus arrived at the 2010 NPT review conference on supply of nuclear technology by transferring nuclear reactors to Pakistan.

This observation on China's supply of nuclear reactors to Pakistan, a country which is not under IAEA safeguards, comes from Arms Control Association, one of leading authorities on nuclear weapons and disarmament, in its latest report assessing progress on non-proliferation.

China has blocked India's membership of Nuclear Suppliers Group saying that participation of a non-NPT signatory in the group will weaken the international non-proliferation regime.

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