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International Viewpoint in March - this was occasioned by the cash-flow difficulties mentioned in the previous be held after India and Pakistan conducted their tests in May 1998. The Conference was organized by Focus on the Global South (Bangkok and Mumbai) and the Community Development Library (Dhaka). The Dhaka Declaration (http://www.focusweb.org/nuclear/dec_nuc.htm) issued by the Conference stated in part: "By conducting nuclear tests in 1998, embracing the doctrine of deterrence, and undertaking the development of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems, India and Pakistan have gravely endangered their own and the region's security and set back the global nuclear disarmament agenda. This nuclearization imitates hegemonic states whose nuclear weapons represent the gravest danger to global security. It Is imperative that India and Pakistan cease all activity pertaining to the development, manufacture, induction or deployment of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. They must immediately dismantle these programmes and sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Ureaty and other restraint measures as steps towards nuclear disarmament, and as part of their return to the global disarmament agenda." The Plan of Action (http://www.focusweb.org/nuclear/poa_nuc.htm) adopted by the Conference specified the elements of a freeze of the Indian and Pakistani programs. The Conference called for the Permanent Five nuclear weapon states (United States, Russia, China, France, United Kingdom) to honor their disarmament obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the 1996 opinion of the International Court of Justice. The Plan of Action called for South Asian activists to support global nuclear disarmament, and in that context to work towards a South Asia Nuclear Weapon Free Zone. Members of the Conference also expressed a desire to work with the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons. The Conference also adopted three resolutions and concluded with what was probably the first ever two-in-one demonstration in Asia at the Indian and Pakistani missions in Dhaka. * Many of the papers delivered at the Conference are available at http://www.focusweb.org/nuclear/key docu/index.html. See also http://www.lenp.org/disarmament/dhakatalk.htm
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