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India becomes member of MTCR from today

By IndianMandarins- 27 Jun 2016
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india-becomes-member-of-mtcr-from-today India will today join the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) as a full member, three days after it failed to get NSG membership. China, which stonewalled India's entry into the 48-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) at the just-concluded Seoul plenary, has not been allowed a membership of 34-nation MTCR despite several efforts. "We applied for the membership of MTCR last year and all the procedural formalities have been completed. Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar will sign the document of accession into MTCR in the presence of Ambassadors of France, Netherlands and Luxembourg," External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup said. Since its civil nuclear deal with the U.S., India has been trying to get into export control regimes like NSG, MTCR, the Australia Group and the Wassenaar Arrangement that regulate the conventional, nuclear, biological and chemicals weapons and technologies.

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