Jaya unhappy with coordination committee8217;s statement

Jayalalitha said she had received a copy of the joint statement issued by the coordination committee members in New Delhi yesterday. 8220;I am not going to sign it,8221; she said, explaining that she disagreed with many of the points in it.

8220;Certainly not,8221; she said, when asked if she was happy with the BJP. It was then that a newsman wanted to know why then she was continuing to back a BJP-led government.

About Union Law Minister M Thambidurai, who represented the AIADMK in the coordination committee meeting yesterday, not signing the statement, Jayalalitha said he was not authorised to sign it, as the party was not aware before hand that a statement was to be released after the meeting.

On the latest round of Indo-US discussions that seemed to take India closer to signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty CTBT, Jayalalitha said the AIADMK8217;s stand was that India should not sign the treaty, unless the five nuclear powers accepted its right to have a minimum nuclear deterrent.

They the P-5 should first destroy their own nuclear arsenal before asking India to sign the CTBT, she said. The United States had an arsenal big enough to destroy the world several times over, and it had no 8220;moral right8221; to ask India to sign the treaty, she said.