With
the Conference on Disarmament (CD) scheduled to start its first session
of 2012 in Geneva from January 24, the Islamabad-based Institute of
Policy Studies held a seminar on “Challenges to Pakistan’s Nuclear
Program and Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty.” The participants, as has
been highlighted by reports in the Pakistan Observer and the Nation,
supported the position that the country has taken on blocking any
progress on the FMCT negotiations.
It may be recalled that Pakistan has held this position over the last
few years, demanding that the treaty must include existing stockpiles of
fissile material within its scope. The rest of the states armed with
nuclear weapons, in contrast to the Pakistani position, conceive the
FMCT as a prospective treaty that’s meant to prohibit the future
production of fissile material from the time it enters into force.
Therefore, in their formulation, it isn’t meant to have a retrospective
effect.
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