India, Pakistan exchange lists of nuke installations
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, Jan 1, IRNA
Indo-Pak-Nuke-Talks
India and Pakistan on Tuesday exchanged the lists of their installations and facilities, taking forward their 17-year-old confidence building measure in the field.
The lists were simultaneously handed over here and in Islamabad by the respective countries under an agreement the two countries initialled on December 31, 1988, PTI said.
The lists include places covered under the Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear Installations and Facilities between the two countries signed by the then Indian foreign secretary K P S Menon and his Pakistani counterpart Humayun Khan.
As per the agreement, which entered into force on January 27, 1991, the two countries exchange the lists on January 1 every year to inform each other of nuclear installations and facilities to be covered under the pact.
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