What concessions is India ready to make to fulfil the conditions of the Non-Proliferation Treaty?
We are not members of the NPT, but we fulfil the majority of its conditions. We have decreed a unilateral moratorium on nuclear tests; our behaviour has always been irreproachable and nobody can accuse India of having contributed to proliferation of sensitive technologies. We have always said that all help brought in by the international community will be used to develop our civil nuclear programme and we hence engage ourselves to separate it from our military nuclear programme. In addition, by contributing to the fight against proliferation, India will help to widen the gap between the threat of the link between international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Does the French nuclear industry have a role to play in India in this context? We are cooperating for a long time with the French industry in this sector. I hope that if the restrictions are lifted, there will be possibilities for India to import reactors from countries like France. France is eminently qualified to play
