1996 India Special Weapons News

India's Agni Could be Deployed within Three Months CDISS News and Views - December 1996
India Puts Agni Back on Hold CDISS News and Views - December 1996
India bows to Western concerns over Agni missile , 6 Dec 1996 Reuters
India Shelves Ballistic Missile Dec 05, 1996 (Reuter)
Newsgroups: rec.aviation.military, Subject: SA-12 "Giant" for India Mumbai, December 1996
India and the CTBT SAPRA INDIA Monthly Bulletin June-October 1996
MISGUIDED MISSILES, Brahma Chellaney, Delhi The Hindustan Times, 11 September 1996.
On the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty STATEMENT BY I. K. GUJRAL, MINISTER OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS, IN THE INDIAN PARLIAMENT ON 11 SEPTEMBER, 1996
XI LOK SABHA DEBATES, Session II,(Budget), Wednesday, September 11, 1996 / Bhadra 20, 1918 (Saka) Type of Debate: STATEMENT BY MINISTER Title: Regarding Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). Participant/s: Shri I.K. Gujral
Statement in explanation of vote by Ms. Arundhati Ghose, Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to the UN Offices at Geneva, on Item 65: CTBT 50th Session of the UN General Assembly at New York on September 10, 1996 -- The text circulated by the sponsors contains a provision in its article 14 on Entry into Force, which is contrary to the fundamental norms of international law. This provision which makes ratification by India and 43 other countries essential for Entry into Force of this Treaty was introduced after India had clearly stated that it was not in a position to subscribe to this treaty in its present form.
Statement by Shri Prakash Shah, Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, on Item 65: CTBT 50th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at New York on September 9, 1996 -- The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty will not end all nuclear testing. It will not stop development and qualitative improvement of nuclear weapons. Instead it will only further sustain the present nuclear hegemony.
U.S. Says CTBT Is Within Reach From Sridhar Krishnaswami The Hindu 06-09-1996
SAPRA Debates: Issues that Concern South Asia India and the CTBT (Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty) Updated: 2 September 1996
Bid to circumvent CD decision: India From R. Chakrapani The Hindu 01-09-1996
India Plans Further Prithvi Tests CDISS News and Views - September 1996
India to Revive Agni Programme CDISS News and Views - September 1996
Indians Call For Nuclear Weapons Declaration CDISS News and Views - August 1996
DISARMAMENT CANNOT WAIT With or without India, the world should move to ban nuclear tests Asia Week August 30, 1996
Govt. Assurance To Parliament On CTBT From K. K. Katyal The Hindu 27-08-1996
CTBT: Economic Fallout Ruled Out From Our Special Correspondent The Hindu 26-08-1996
On the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) SUO MOTO STATEMENT BY I. K. GUJRAL, MINISTER OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS, IN THE INDIAN PARLIAMENT ON 26TH AUGUST 1996
XI LOK SABHA DEBATES, Session II,(Budget), Monday, August 26, 1996 / Bhadra 4, 1918 (Saka) Type of Debate: STATEMENT BY MINISTER Title: Regarding Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Participant/s: Shri I.K. Gujaral
Steps To Counter Nuclear Arms Proliferation Needed The Hindu 20 August 1996
Statement made by Ms. Arundhati Ghose, Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India Plenary Meeting of the Conference On Disarmament, Geneva on August 20, 1996 - The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which was extended indefinitely in 1995, was also a treaty that had been originally sponsored by India and other countries as a major disarmament measure, and which, during negotiations, had been distorted to one which instead divided the world into nuclear haves and have-nots with its indefinite extension, nuclear weapons were sought to be legitimised in the hands of the nuclear weapon states forever.
TROUBLE AT THE THRESHOLD AFTER MANY YEARS OF DEBATE, ONLY ONE THING NOW STANDS IN THE WAY OF A NUCLEAR TEST-BAN TREATY: INDIA TIME International August 12, 1996
Warren Christopher's Letter To Gujaral: No Coercion on CTBT The Hindu 10 August 1996
Statement made by Ms. Arundhati Ghose, Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to the UN Offices at Geneva, Plenary of the Conference on Disarmament on August 8, 1996 -- This text, while it does contain a Treaty, does not contain the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty we had been mandated to negotiate nor does it meet India's basic concerns. Therefore, our position as stated on 20th June not to sign this Treaty in this form, stands.
On the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty STATEMENT BY I. K. GUJRAL, MINISTER OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS, IN THE INDIAN PARLIAMENT ON 2 AUGUST, 1996
XI LOK SABHA DEBATES, Session II,(Budget), Friday, August 2, 1996 / Sravana 11, 1918 (Saka) Type of Debate: SHORT DURATION DISCUSSION (RULE-193) Title: India's position with regard to Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) (Contd. - Concluded). Participant/s: Shri Ramesh Chennithala Shri Ajay Chakraborty Shri Chitta Basu Shri S. Bangarappa Shri Pramothes Mukherjee Shri P.R. Dasmunsi Dr. Jayanta Rongpi Shri Suresh Prabhu Shri I.K. Gujral
On the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty STATEMENT BY I. K. GUJRAL, MINISTER OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS, IN THE INDIAN PARLIAMENT ON 31 JULY, 1996
XI LOK SABHA DEBATES, Session II,(Budget), Wednesday, July 31, 1996 / Sravana 9, 1918 (Saka) Type of Debate: SHORT DURARTION DISCUSSIONS (RULE-193) Title: Chinese nuclear test and CTBT. (Not concluded) Participant/s: Shri I.K. Gujral Lt. General Prakash Mani Tripathi Dr. Mallikarjun Shri Rupchand Pal Shri G.G. Swell Shri Jaswant Singh Shri Prithviraj D. Chavan Shri Brij Bhushan Tiwari
India's `No' May Seal Fate Of CTBT The Hindu 29 July 1996 From K. K. Katyal
INDIA REJECTS PRESSURES OVER SIGNING CTBT - By Sanjiv Prakash (ANI) - 24 July 1996
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty STATEMENT BY I. K. GUJRAL, MINISTER OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS, IN THE INDIAN PARLIAMENT ON JULY 15, 1996
XI LOK SABHA DEBATES, Session II,(Budget), Monday, July 15, 1996 / Asadha 24, 1918 (Saka) Type of Debate: STATEMENT BY MINISTER Title: India's position with regard to comprehensive testban treaty (CTBT). Participant/s: Shri I. K. Gujaral
The Nuclear Submarine The Hindu - 12 July 1996
India The Holdout in Geneva New Delhi blocks a nuclear test ban treaty Asia Week 12 July 1996
Gujral Gives Reasons For Rejecting CTBT The Hindu - 22 June 1996
India Says No To CTBT At Geneva Conference The Hindu - 21 June 1996
India Not To Subscribe To CTBT Draft The Hindu - 20 June 1996
Statement made by Ms. Arundhati Ghose, Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to UN Plenary Meeting of the Conference On Disarmament, Geneva on June 20, 1996 -- The CTBT that we see emerging appears to be shaped more by the technological preferences of the nuclear weapon states rather than the imperatives of nuclear disarmament. This was not the CTBT that India envisaged in 1954. This cannot be the CTBT that India can be expected to accept.
Prithvi And Agni The Hindu - 18 June 1996
Preserve India's Options The Hindu - 15 June 1996
Yet Another Chinese Nuclear Test The Hindu - 11 June 1996
NUCLEAR TESTING IN SOUTH ASIA AND THE CTBT by Andrew Koch The Nonproliferation Review: Spring-Summer, 1996 Volume 3, Number 3
Russia, China And India The Hindu - 27 April 1996
Beijing's New Moves The Hindu - 09 March 1996
CTBT and Indian Security By Major General Dipankar Banerjee Bulletin of SAPRA INDIA February-March 1996
India's Specific Security Concerns and the CTBT Bulletin of SAPRA INDIA February-March 1996
PAKISTANI, INDIAN OFFICIALS DISCUSS SOUTH ASIAN SECURITY By Rick Marshall USIA Staff Writer - 15 February 1996
A Policy Under Test The Hindu - 14 February 1996
Progress Of The Missile Programme The Hindu - 02 February 1996
Out Of The Freezer The Hindu - 17 January 1996
Japan Should Help Restrain India: Benazir The Hindu - 05 January 1996
The ABM Treaty The Hindu - 02 January 1996

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1996 India Special Weapons News