{"id":77,"date":"2016-09-15T17:23:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2016-09-15T17:23:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:23:14","slug":"on-indias-nsg-membership-china-agrees-to-participate-in-building-consensus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2016\/09\/15\/on-indias-nsg-membership-china-agrees-to-participate-in-building-consensus\/","title":{"rendered":"On India\u2019s NSG membership, China agrees to participate in building consensus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indrani Bagchi<\/a>| <\/span><\/p>\n

NEW DELHI: After the first round of talks between India and China on the NSG+<\/span> , both countries may hold a second set of discussions in October in Beijing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The talks, between Wang Qun and Amandeep Gill, which for the first time saw India and China+<\/span> engaging each other on such an important issue, ended with China agreeing to engage with the consensus building process by Argentinian diplomatRafael Grossi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

China’s foreign ministry put out a statement later that it would support a “two-step” process – “at the first stage, to explore and reach agreement on a non-discriminatory formula applicable to all the non-NPT states, and to proceed to take up country-specific membership issues at the second stage. China, for its part, expressed its readiness to actively participate in the above process within the Group.”<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, China\u00a0<\/span>reiterated that it had not supported any specific country’s membership issue. “China is yet to form a position on the accession of any specific non-NPT country. But we are willing to have discussions with NSG members on the accession of non-NPT countries.”<\/p>\n

But this “two-step” process is already under way – the NSG itself has started the process of consultations among countries who wanted a clearer process for induction of non-NPT countries into NSG. China is taking a more leisurely approach to this, as opposed to the US which wants the process to be completed before theObama<\/a> administration steps down.<\/p>\n

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The India-China talks came about because, while the NSG process is a multilateral one, as pointed out by China, it is also a bilateral exercise. Particularly with major countries like China, multilateral issues like NSG membership have a strong bilateral dimension.<\/p>\n

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In its own inputs to the ongoing NSG consultation process, India has argued NSG was not a treaty implementation body, but a group of nuclear suppliers keen on ensuring that their stuff does not fall into the wrong hands.<\/p>\n

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India says the focus within NSG has been on the “implementation” of NPT. So, for a non-NPT country, that would mean checking off some markers or criteria – whether it complies with the provisions of NPT, particularly Articles I, III(2), IV and VI, and if it is reflected in policy commitments and domestic legislation; whether it abides by NPT rules in a safeguards agreement with the IAEA. The state in question, India says, should have a record of non-proliferation and disarmament that is in adherence to the NPT. As an adherent, regardless of its non-signatory status, India argues it has a better case.<\/p>\n

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