अप्रसार संधि (एनपीटी) 🔆NON PROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT)
🔆NON PROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT)
✅ Why in News : Year 2020 marked the 50th anniversary of the entry into force of NPT;
✅ Recently, Iran has warned to withdraw from the NPT if the European Nations refer the dispute over its atomic programme to the UNSC;
✅ Iran has accused the three EU member states of inaction over sanctions the United States reimposed on it after unilaterally withdrawing from the landmark accord (JCPOA) in 2018.
✅Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as NPT, is an international treaty with an objective to limit the escalation of a nuclear arms race and the technology related to it. Further goals of the treaty also included promoting cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy and achieving complete nuclear disarmament;
✅ Formation: 1970;
✅Headquarters: Moscow, London, Washington D.C.
✅Aims and Objectives :To prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology; To promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy; To further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.
▪️India and NPT
✅ India is one of the only five countries that either did not sign the NPT or signed but
withdrew, thus becoming part of a list that includes Pakistan, Israel, North Korea, and South Sudan;
✅ India always considered the NPT as discriminatory and had refused to sign it.
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