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.