Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : India Coffee House -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Shivram Hala who wrote (6001)	8/27/1999 7:21:00 PM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Shiv: Greetings India may sign CTBT after poll Shiv:You have exercised patience, intelligence, directness in your arguments. Circumlocutions, obfuscations, convolutions, meaningless verbal redundancy, aka garbage, regurgitation of same old statements, word salad, obsessive repetition etc are some of the pitfalls in a debate. You have cleverly avoided those pitfalls. BTW: All are not bad in Pakistan as we, Indians are the first ones to concede. dawn.com 27 August 1999 Friday 14 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1420 VIENNA, Aug 26: India will hopefully sign a global nuclear test ban treaty soon after its general election this autumn, and Pakistan is likely to follow suit, treaty officials said on Thursday. They said 152 states had now signed the CTBT banning nuclear weapons testing and any other nuclear explosions since the UN opened it for signature in September 1996. But to date, only 21 of 44 key states that must sign and ratify the treaty before it can enter into force have done so. India and Pakistan are among several states which have neither signed nor ratified the agreement. "The top priority when it comes to new signatures and ratification is really India and Pakistan," Wolfgang Hoffmann, executive secretary of the CTBT preparatory commission, said. He said he would resume talks with India after general elections there in September and early October and that there was "a fair chance to have an Indian signature fairly soon". "Pakistan is looking at what India is doing. Therefore it seems to me that if India is ready to sign, also Pakistan will sign," Hoffmann told reporters. He said UN chief Kofi Annan would summon a review conference in Vienna on October 6-8 to take stock after three years of work on the test ban treaty. In New Delhi, India's main opposition Congress party said it did not rule out signing the treaty, but that the country's strategic interests were paramount.-Reuters