India’s Explanation of Vote(Post-Voting): Nuclear Weapons Cluster, 78th UNGA First Committee, UNHQ, New York, November 2023

India’s Explanation of Vote(Post-Voting)

Nuclear Weapons Cluster

78th UNGA First Committee, UNHQ, New York, November 2023
 

India has gone along with the adoption of L.29-“Treaty on the South-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (Bangkok Treaty)”, without a vote.

2.         India respects the sovereign choice of non-nuclear weapons States to establish NWFZs on the basis of arrangements freely arrived at among the States of the region concerned consistent with the provisions of SSOD-I as well as the 1999 UNDC guidelines referred to in the resolution.

3.         India enjoys friendly relations with all countries of the South East Asian region.  We respect the sovereign choice of State Parties to the Bangkok Treaty.  As a nuclear weapon State, India has conveyed an unambiguous assurance that it will respect the status of the South-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free zone.