Pakistan, India to exchange lists of
their nuclear
facilities on Tuesday

RT Monitoring Desk
New Delhi: For seventeenth consecutive year India and Pakistan will on Tuesday exchange lists of their nuclear installations and facilities, a key confidence building measure between the two countries.
The lists will be exchanged simultaneously in New Delhi and in Islamabad through diplomatic channels under an agreement two countries initialled in 1988.
The lists included places covered under Agreement on Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear Installations and Facilities between two countries signed by the then Foreign Secretary K P S Menon and his Pakistani counterpart Humayun Khan.
As per agreement, which entered into force on January 27, 1991, the two countries exchange lists on January one every year to inform each other of nuclear installations and facilities to be covered under the pact.
"It is a good confidence building measure which has been holding for last 17 years," Pakistan Deputy High Commissioner Afrasiab said.


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