N-deal is not for stocking weapons: Pranab
Defending the UPA govt's stance on nuclear deal, Pranab Mukherjee said that the govt did not intend to stockpile weapons, but create scope of nuclear research.
By PTI |
KOLKATA: Defending the UPA government's stance on nuclear deal, Union External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said that by operationalising the deal the government did not intend to stockpile weapons, but make available more energy and create scope of nuclear research.
"We have enough arsenal in our possession and a strong force to defend our country. So we don't need to sign the nuclear deal for stocking weapons. It has much larger implication," Mukherjee said at a function organised by the Ramkrishna Mission Seva Pratisthan.
The deal would break the 34-year-old nuclear isolation ushering in the resumption of research and development which
scientists and technologists had been denied of since the first nuclear test in Pokhran in 1974.
"Nuclear energy is the energy of the next generation and we want our people to enjoy it," Mukherjee said.
Mukherjee was speaking on the occasion of the platinum jubilee celebration of the Ramkrishna Mission Seva Pratisthan which was established in 1938.
"We have enough arsenal in our possession and a strong force to defend our country. So we don't need to sign the nuclear deal for stocking weapons. It has much larger implication," Mukherjee said at a function organised by the Ramkrishna Mission Seva Pratisthan.
The deal would break the 34-year-old nuclear isolation ushering in the resumption of research and development which
scientists and technologists had been denied of since the first nuclear test in Pokhran in 1974.
"Nuclear energy is the energy of the next generation and we want our people to enjoy it," Mukherjee said.
Mukherjee was speaking on the occasion of the platinum jubilee celebration of the Ramkrishna Mission Seva Pratisthan which was established in 1938.
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