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October 2002 - India Special Weapons News

  • Presidential Determination No. 2000-04 October 27, 1999 - I hereby waive the sanctions contained in sections 101 and 102 of the Arms Export Control Act.
  • RICHARDSON/INDIA Voice of America 26 October 1999 -- Energy Secretary Bill Richardson has wrapped up a one-day visit to India by calling for the new government to end production of nuclear fissile material.
  • INDIA / GOVERNMENT Voice of America 25 October 1999 -- India's Hindu nationalist-led coalition government promises bold economic reforms, and says it wants to modernize the country's defense after the recent military conflict in Kashmir.
  • INDIA/BOFORS SCANDAL Voice of America 22 October 1999 -- Indian investigators have filed the first criminal charges in a corruption-and-bribery scandal involving an arms purchase deal that shook India's political establishment more than a decade ago.
  • Text: Richardson's India Trip To Explore Greater Cooperation USIA 22 October 1999 -- The United States believes that it "would be in India's national security interests" to take certain specific steps. These include: adherence to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, constructive engagement on the Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty, participating in a multilateral moratorium on fissile material production for weapons, pending conclusion of a Cut-Off treaty, restraint in missile development including non-deployment, and strengthened controls over the export of nuclear material."
  • Address to the Nation by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee 16 October 1999 -- One of our immediate tasks will be to firmly put down terrorism, which has come to cast its cruel shadow on innocent people. Our message is loud and clear: The life of every India citizen under our dispensation is precious. In our fight against terrorism, we will be guided by the principle of 'Zero Tolerance'..
  • Statement by H.E. Ms. Savitri Kunadi, Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations in Geneva at the General Debate in the First Committee - October 15, 1999 -- The failure of the international community to effectively address the threat posed by nuclear weapons over the past fifty years makes it all the more necessary that we redouble our efforts for their elimination in the coming years.
  • INDIA TO FOLLOW CLOSED-FUEL CYCLE NUCLEAR POLICY Press Information Bureau 15 October 1999 -- India has chosen to follow a closed-fuel cycle policy to ensure long term energy security. This calls for the setting up of reprocessing plants and breeder reactors. Our Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) at Kalpakkam, over a decade old has achieved all technological objectives. The indigenous design and development of the 500 MW Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) is progressing as per schedule and the construction is expected to begin sometime in 2001.
  • DEFENCE STRATEGY MUST LOOK BEYOND PRESENT THREAT : PANT Press Information Bureau 13 October 1999 -- Pointing out that some major powers were trying to confine India in a narrow sub-continental power equation with Pakistan, he said because of its size and location, India's security concerns and interests extend to regions far beyond its immediate neighbourhood.
  • VAJPAYEE SWEARING-IN Voice of America 13 October 1999 -- India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee says he is concerned about the military coup in Pakistan, but he is committed to friendly relations with India's neighbor.
  • INDIA / CONGRESS Voice of America 12 October 1999 -- In the recent national elections, the Congress Party lost to the Hindu- nationalist coalition in the party's worst defeat ever.
  • May 13 Indian N-tests may have `failed': NYT Associated Press of Pakistan 11 October 1999 -- While the three nuclear blasts at Pokhran on May 11 were registered by seismometers, not even faint rumbles or blips were detected on May 13. The growing perception in Washington, if these reports are to be believed, were India may have ``faked'' the 4th and 5th test. On May 11, an explosion of the magnitude of 5.1 on the Richter scale was recorded; on May 13, it was blank with no signals being recorded.
  • INDIA / PRIME MINISTER Voice of America 11 October 1999 -- India's Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, was named Prime Minister on Monday following his coalition's victory in parliamentary elections.
  • INDIAN ELECTIONS / FRIDAY Voice of America 08 October 1999 -- Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee began the process of forming his new government Friday. Mr. Vajpayee's Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies won nearly 300 seats in India's 545-seat parliament -- soundly defeating the once-dominant Congress Party, which won just over 130 seats. Mr. Vajpayee and his allies say they have enough of a majority to serve a full five-year term in office.
  • INDIA VOTE COUNT THURSDAY Voice of America 07 October 1999 --Results show Mr. Vajpayee's National Democratic Alliance -- led by his Bharatiya Janata Party -- has passed the majority mark of 272 seats in India's lower house. It will add more seats as the count continues. The opposition Congress Party, led by Italian-born Sonia Gandhi, has suffered a major electoral defeat.
  • INDIA VOTE RESULTS Voice of America 06 October 1999 -- In India, the results from the country's month-long election show the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has swept parliamentary elections in Greater New Delhi.
  • INDIA VOTE COUNT Voice of America 6 October 1999 -- India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has won re-election to parliament and his 22-party ruling coalition has taken an early lead in vote counting from India's mammoth month-long election.
  • INDIA ELECTION REACT Voice of America 4 October 1999 -- : Exit polls in India indicate Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and his multi-party alliance will likely form the next government.
  • INDIA ELECTION-MONDAY Voice of America 04 October 1999 -- Exit polls in India, following a month-long election, indicate the ruling Hindu nationalist-led coalition government will be able to form a new government.
  • INDIA ELECTION Voice of America 03 October 1999 -- After five weeks of staggered voting in India, exit polls show the ruling Hindu Nationalist coalition being returned to power with a slim majority. The polls conducted at each stage of the five-phase voting process were released late Sunday by India's state television network, at the end of regular voting.
  • India Test-Launches New Missile Washington Post October 1, 1999 - India test-launched its most sophisticated surface-to-air missile. The Akash missile can carry both nuclear and conventional warheads.



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