- Title: SWITZERLAND: PAKISTAN AND INDIA CLASH AT THE U.N. DISARMAMENT BODY
- Date: 19th August 1999
- Summary: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (AUGUST 19, 1999) (UNTV) 1. AERIAL OF BUILDING WHERE DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE IS BEING HELD 0.10 2. PAN OF DELEGATES IN CONFERENCE 0.20 3. MCU (English) PAKISTANI AMBASSADOR MUNIR AKRAM SAYING: "Since the vast majority of India's conventional assets are deployed against Pakistan it will be obliged to respond to the Indian build-up. Moreover the growing imbalance in conventional military capabilities will intensify Pakistan's reliance on its nuclear capabilities to deter the use of threat of aggression or domination by India. Thus Mr. Chairman, as the Indian document states, that the purpose of the conventional arms build-up is to raise the nuclear threshold, in fact the Indian conventional build-up will further lower the nuclear threshold and bring closer the risk of nuclear use in the sub-continent." 1.15 4. MCU (English) INDIA'S AMBASSADOR SAVITRI KUNADI SAYING: "There is no change in the Indian position on the doctrine of minimum credible deterrents and its elements as stated in the CD (Conference on Disarmament) and other fora in the past. Attempts by the delegate from Pakistan to drag this document in to the deliberations of this conference are unfortunate." 1.37 5. LV/MCU OF DELEGATES AT CONFERENCE (5 SHOTS) 2.06 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
- Country: Switzerland
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