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08 June 1998

TEXT: UNSC RESOLUTION CONDEMNS INDIA-PAKISTAN NUCLEAR TESTS

(Urges them to join NPT and CTBT "without delay)  (1060)
United Nations -- The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) late
Saturday, June 6 unanimously condemned the recent nuclear tests by
India and Pakistan, and:
-- demanded that both countries refrain from any further nuclear
explosions,
-- called on all other countries not to carry out their own nuclear
tests,
-- urged India and Pakistan to "exercise maximum restraint," avoid
"threatening military movement" that might aggravate the situation and
resume dialogue to find "mutually acceptable solutions" to "root
causes" of the tensions between them, "including Kashmir,"
-- called on the two countries "immediately to stop their nuclear
weapons development" programs, including the weaponization and
deployment of such weapons, development of ballistic missile delivery
systems and further production of "fissile material for nuclear
weapons,"
-- flatly denied that India and Pakistan can claim status as
nuclear-weapon states, and
-- urged both countries to accede to both the Nuclear Weapons
Non-Proliferation treaty and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
"without delay or conditions."
Following is the United Nations Security Council text:
(begin text)
RESOLUTION 1172
"The Security Council,
"Reaffirming the statements of its President of 14 May 1998
(S/PRST/1998/12) and of 29 May 1998 (S/PRST/1998/l7),
"Reiterating the statement of its President of 31 January 1992
(S/23500), which stated, inter alia, that the proliferation of all
weapons of mass destruction constitutes a threat to international
peace and security,
"Gravely concerned at the challenge that the nuclear tests conducted
by India and then by Pakistan constitute to international efforts
aimed at strengthening the global regime of non-proliferation of
nuclear weapons, and also gravely concerned at the danger to peace and
stability in the region,
"Deeply concerned at the risk of a nuclear arms race in South Asia,
and determined to prevent such a race,
"Reaffirming the crucial importance of the Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the Comprehensive Nuclear
Test Ban Treaty for global efforts towards nuclear non-proliferation
and nuclear disarmament,
"Recalling the Principles and Objectives for Nuclear Non-Proliferation
and Disarmament adopted by the 1995 Review and Extension Conference of
the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,
and the successful outcome of that Conference,
"Affirming the need to continue to move with determination towards the
full realization and effective implementation of all the provisions of
the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and welcoming
the determination of the five nuclear-weapon States to fulfil their
commitments relating to nuclear disarmament under Article VI of that
Treaty,
"Mindful of its primary responsibility under the Charter of the United
Nations for the maintenance of international peace and security,
"1. Condemns the nuclear tests conducted by India on 11 and 13 May
1998 and by Pakistan on 28 and 30 May 1998;
"2. Endorses the Joint Communique issued by the Foreign Ministers of
China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America at their
meeting; in Geneva on 4 June 1998 5/1998/473);
"3. Demands that India and Pakistan refrain from further nuclear tests
and in this context calls upon all States not to carry out any nuclear
weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion in accordance
with the provisions of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty;
"4. Urges India and Pakistan to exercise maximum restraint and to
avoid threatening military movements, cross-border violations, or
other provocations in order to prevent an aggravation of the
situation;
"5. Urges India sod Pakistan to resume the dialogue between them on
all outstanding issues, particularly on all matters pertaining to
peace and security, in order to remove the tensions between them, and
encourages them to find mutually acceptable solutions that address the
root causes of those tensions, including Kashmir;
"6. Welcomes the efforts of the Secretary-General to encourage India
and Pakistan to enter into dialogue;
"7. Calls upon India and Pakistan immediately to stop their nuclear
weapon development programmes, 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, to confirm their
policies not to export equipment, materials or technology that could
contribute to weapons of mass destruction or missiles capable of
delivering them and to undertake appropriate commitments in that
regard;
"8. Encourages all States to prevent the export of equipment,
materials or technology that could in any way assist programmes in
India or Pakistan for nuclear weapons or for ballistic missiles
capable of delivering; such weapons, and welcomes national policies
adopted and declared in this respect;
"9. Expresses its grave concern at the negative effect of the nuclear
tests conducted by India and Pakistan on peace and stability in South
Asia and beyond;
"10. Reaffirms its full commitment to and the crucial importance of
the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty as the cornerstones of the
international regime on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and
as essential foundations for the pursuit of nuclear disarmament;
"11. Expresses its firm conviction that the international regime on
the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons should be maintained and
consolidated and recalls that in accordance with the Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons India or Pakistan cannot have the
status of a nuclear-weapon State;
"12. Recognizes that the tests conducted by India and Pakistan
constitute a serious threat to global efforts towards nuclear
non-proliferation and disarmament;
"13. Urges India and Pakistan, and all other States that have not yet
done so, to become Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons and to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
without delay and without conditions;
"14. Urges India and Pakistan to participate, in a positive spirit and
on the basis of the agreed mandate, in negotiations at the Conference
on Disarmament in Geneva on a treaty banning; the production of
fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive
devices, with a view to reaching early agreement;
"15. Requests the Secretary-General to report urgently to the Council
on the steps taken by India and Pakistan to implement the present
resolution;
"16. Expresses its readiness to consider further how best to ensure
the implementation of the present resolution;
"17. Decides to remain actively seized of the matter."
(end text)