To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5642 ) 8/18/1999 1:43:00 PM From: JPR Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 12475
Mohan and Ratan:The Fox (China) invites a lamb (India) for a dinner. The lamb is THE DINNER cooked over a nuclear oven. The Chinese will be looking for more arable and living space. India may be a good destination. India is not too far off from Tibet. Neat thought. China comes to India: INDIA-->CHINDIA-->CHINDA--->CHINA Posted August 18, 1999 Renounce N-programme, induction of Agni: China Beijing, August 18: Reacting to India?s decision to induct the nuclear-capable Agni-II into its arsenal, China on Wednesday urged New Delhi to renounce its nuclear weapons programme and induction of the ballistic missile by implementing UN Security Council resolution to this effect. ?India should implement UN Security Council Resolution 1172 in earnest and comprehensively,? Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhu Bangzao said in response to India?s draft nuclear doctrine and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee?s announcement on Independence Day that the government had decided to induct Agni-II into its armed forces. ?On the South Asian nuclear issue, the Security Council unanimously adopted by consensus resolution 1172, which reflects the will and embodies the position of the international community,? Zhu said here. As a permanent member of the Security Council, China has all along believed that the Council resolution should be strictly observed, he said. ?This is conducive to the prevention of an arms race in the region and to maintain security and stability. This also serves the fundamental interests of the people in South Asia,? the spokesperson said. Among other things, the Security Council resolution calls upon both the South Asian neighbours to stop their nuclear weapon development programmes immediately, to refrain from weaponisation or from the deployment of nuclear weapons, to cease development of ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons and any further production of fissile material for nuclear weapons. The Agni-II intermediate range ballistic missile, test-fired on April 11, is capable of reaching several Chinese cities.