| Let US, China ratify CTBT first: India |
New Delhi, Dec 29: Japan on Tuesday urged India to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), but kept the door open for civil nuclear cooperation and high-tech trade in the future. India in its turn put the onus on the US and China to show the way by ratifying the treaty.
Civil nuclear cooperation was among key issues Prime Minister Manmohan Singh discussed with his Japanese counterpart Yukio Hatoyama in wide-ranging talks. They vowed to push for an early conclusion of an economic partnership agreement to scale up trade and investment and cooperate on a range of global issues, including the UN reforms, climate change and nuclear disarmament.
The two leaders signed an ambitious joint declaration entitled “New Stage of India-Japan Strategic and Global Partnership”, which has an action plan on advancing security and counter-terror cooperation as its centrepiece.
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