CorCom opposes India's membership bid in NSG
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, June 21 2016: The Coordination Committee (CorCom) has raised strong objection to the Government of India's attempt to enter the league of the elite Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).

A representation jointly signed by UNLF Chairman and CorCom Convenor Khundongbam Pambei, PREPAK Acting Chairman Khumujam Shathy, PREPAK(Pro) Chairman Longjam Paliba and RPF president Irengbam Chaoren and addressed to the NSG Chair asserted that the Government of India does not deserve any respect and therefore must not enjoy NSG membership.

Manipur was forcibly annexed by India on October 15, 1949, they alleged.

India's membership to NSG will buttress its agenda to building a monolithic nuclear power block in the region, which will in turn become the instrument of oppression by the exploitative market forces that have been erected to enjoy the spoils of unjust war.

The propaganda postulation about India's sincerity and commitment to the exchange lists of NSG is a strategic invention.

Its objective to become a member of NSG is to manipulate it to fulfil its super-profit objectives, alleged the statement.

Empowering the Government of India by giving membership to nuclear control regimes and letting it to grow into nuclear sophistication and technological and resource supports will shrink breathing space of subjugated and oppressed Nations.

Scramble for super-profit, backed by nuclear sophistication, will escalate conflict among enemy countries and render many in Asia into vulnerabilities.

India is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), it is not a party to a nuclear weapon-free zone treaty, it does not join the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), and it is not making any legal commitments identical to NPT articles concerning its nuclear arms.

The Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) was founded in response to the Indian nuclear test in May 1974, which demonstrated that nuclear technology transferred by Canada and US for peaceful purposes could be misused to building nuclear weapons.

India is not civilized and truthful as France, the founder member of the elite group NSG and signatory of NPT therefore cannot be compared with France to be a member of NSG.

"India's desire to be a member of the NSG comes from its conviction that the NSG is a useful forum to advance global non-proliferation objectives, and India can contribute positively towards that end by being a NSG member".

This statement is nothing but a mere propaganda as India's joining NSG is purely political.

If it is not a mere propaganda or political, the question is why India does not follow the existing criteria of admission to NSG.

The approach exemplifies India's concealed agenda to enhance its nuclear weapon productions to become a powerful player in Asia, particularly in South Asia unleashing nuclear weapon competition, added the statement.

India, so far, continues to refrain from signing NPT or CTBT in order to escape from nuclear control norms, which will jeopardise its vested nuclear agenda.

It will strengthen India's domination over smaller Nations in South and South-East Asia.

India imposes considerable sphere of pressure and influence upon Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

India's finance expansionism is spreading in Southeast Asia under the cover of its Act East Policy, added the statement.

India's alleged colonial system is enforced in Western Southeast Asia Region (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura) and Jammu & Kashmir.

Apart from direct military engagement with revolutionary forces in Manipur, Government of India indulges in waging proxy war through creating counter-revolutionary armed groups and communal forces, it continued.

In the alleged occupied territories, Government of India violates several international humanitarian laws such as Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention of 1949 .

Draconian laws such as Armed Forces Special Powers Act, National Security Act, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act and series of other repressive laws are instrumental in suppressing popular democratic movement for economic and political rights.

The alleged Indian colonial regime and its army operate in such a sophisticated and orchestrated way that the international community cannot easily understand or recognise the entire consequences of the overt and covert Indian colonialism, it alleged.

De-nuclearisation of India will contribute a lot to National liberations, social emancipations, sustainable development and long term durable peace in Asia and World as well.

"We, therefore, on behalf of the oppressed people of Manipur, humbly appeal to the elite member States of NSG not to allow India's entry into NSG without honouring the present criteria of admission and without any meaningful commitment to nuclear disarmament treaties as well", CorCom concluded.

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