‘Don’t use IAEA to frame foreign policy’

CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said during an address at the UN General Assembly that UN member states should not use technical bodies (such ...

CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said during an address at the UN General Assembly that UN member states should not use technical bodies (such as IAEA) for conducting foreign policy by other means.

Yechury, who was a member of the Indian delegation on the IAEA report at the 60th session of the UNGA, said in his address on Monday that confidence in the IAEA was the result of its professional competence and impartial action.

‘‘It is important that non-discrimination should remain a vital consideration, the scope of instruments should not be redefined without formally amending them, goal posts should not be selectively shifted beyond legal obligations.’’

He pointed out that while there was a suggestion during the deliberations that countries that had not joined the NPT should do so, asking India to join it was like ‘‘tilting at the windmills’’ and India continued to regard NPT as ‘‘a deeply flawed and discriminatory treaty.’’ Yechury said India record as a responsible country with advanced nuclear technologies and in terms of non-proliferation of WMDs and related technologies will contribute to extinguishing restrictive technology regimes.

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