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Article: INDIA READY FOR BAN ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS: NSA
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- The Hindustan Times
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- February 7, 2009
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Sudeshna Sarkar
Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication.
Munich, Feb. 07 -- (IANS) India is willing to negotiate a nuclear weapons convention leading to global non-discriminatory and verifiable elimination of nuclear weapons, National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan has said here.
Addressing an international security conference in Munich Friday, the NSA said: "If this conference succeeds in not merely addressing the issue of nuclear reductions but also devise pathways to their elimination, this might well be the transforming moment for the global community."
"Non-proliferation cannot be an end in itself, and has to be linked to effective nuclear disarmament. ...