Pakistan Demands Non-Proliferation from Iran
Tehran’s nuclear standoff has drastically changed the geostrategic environment in the Central and South Asia. Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, for instance, thinks his country has all right to demand non-proliferation from Iran.
Although Pakistan has not sealed the non-proliferation treaty and has a nuclear bomb of its own, it has the right to demand non-proliferation from Iran, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf told Kommersant.
Any state is urged to reinforce the military potential by two reasons, Musharraf said, to defend from the outer threat and to augment its standing in the region. On the regional scale, Pakistan is a small country forced to restore the balance once India became a nuclear power.
As to Iran, it is threatened by no one, Musharraf specified. The problem of nuclear weapons is based on evaluation of threats to a definite country. We advocate non-proliferation, so that the region of South Asia could be free from the nuclear weapons. Pakistan would abandon nuclear weapons, should India do the same, Pakistan’s president specified.
To sum it up, I would like to say we may have nuclear weapons and demand non-proliferation from Iran, Musharraf said.
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All the Article in Russian as of Feb. 02, 2006
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