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India must join NPT: Japan http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/11/stories/2007011116100100.htm
Tokyo: Japan's top government spokesman on Wednesday refused to acknowledge India as a nuclear weapons State, demanding that the South Asian nation join the international non-proliferation treaty.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki also urged India to abandon its atomic weapons programme, denying a newspaper report that Tokyo was mulling acknowledging India's nuclear possession.
"Japan and the global community have valued the international system of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation based on the NPT,'' he said, referring to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. - AP
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