South Asia Nuclear Crisis
India and Pakistan Nuclear Tests, 1998
Detailed commentary on the tests and their implications for
regional and global non-proliferation and disarmament efforts is
included in Disarmament Diplomacy
No. 28, July 1998.
Statements and Developments June - September 1998
- India and Pakistan: Statements to the
UNGA, September 1998
- Indian Statement to the CD, August
1998
- Pakistan Statement to the CD, July
1998
- Security Council Resolution &
Responses from India and Pakistan, June 1998
- Permanent Mission of India, Geneva, Press
Statement, June 1998
- P-5 Foreign Ministers Meeting, Geneva,
June 1998
- Statements to a Special Session of the CD,
June 1998
- Statement by India
- Statement by Pakistan
- Statement delivered by New Zealand on behalf of 47 States
I. India Nuclear Tests
A. Statements by India
- Statement to Parliament by Prime Minister Vajpayee, 27 May
- Vajpayee letter to President Clinton, 12 May
- Joint Statement of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and
Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), 17 May
- Government Press Release, 15 May
- Press Conference by Weapons Scientists, 17 May
- Other Comment (former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar; former
Finance Minister Chidambaram; Communist MP Indrajit Gupta)
B. Statements by Pakistan
- Statement to the CD, 14 May
C. International Comment
- UN (Secretary-General Annan; Security Council; General
Assembly; Under-Secretary General for Disarmament Dhanapala)
- G8 (15 May statement)
- Australia (Foreign Minister Downer)
- Canada (Foreign Minister Axworthy)
- China (Foreign Ministry statements)
- Denmark (Foreign Ministry statement)
- Finland (Prime Minister Lipponen)
- France (Foreign Ministry & Government
statements)
- Germany (CD Statement; Ministry for Economic Cooperation
and Development)
- Iraq (Al-Thawra newspaper)
- Japan (Chief Cabinet Secretary; Statement to the
CD)
- Kazakhstan (Ministry of Foreign Affairs Statement)
- Malaysia (Foreign Ministry statement)
- Russia (President Yeltsin; Foreign Minister
Primakov)
- South Africa (Foreign Ministry statement)
- Sweden (Foreign Minister Persson; Foreign Aid Minister
Schori)
- Ukraine (Foreign Ministry statement)
- UK (Foreign Secretary Cook)
- US (President Clinton; Fact Sheet on Sanctions;
Secretary of State Albright; Senator Jesse Helms; Rep. Newt
Gingrich)
- Other Reaction (Dalai Lama)
II. Pakistan Nuclear Tests
A. Statements by Pakistan
- Comment & Statement by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, 28
May
- Remarks by Foreign Secretary Shamshad Ahmed, 30 May
- Remarks by Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub Khan, 31 May
- Interview with chief weapons scientist, 31 May
- Statement to the CD, 28 May
B. Statements by India
- Foreign Ministry statements, 28 May
- Foreign Ministry statements, 31 May
- Other Comment (Prime Minister Vajpayee; Defence Minister
Fernandes; former Prime Minister Gujral)
C. International Comment
- UN(Secretary-General Annan; Security Council; General
Assembly)
- NATO-Russia (Joint Permanent Council statement)
- IAEA (Director General El Baradei)
- 47-State Statement to the CD (Delivered by New
Zealand)
- Australia (Foreign Minister Downer)
- Canada (Prime Minister Chretien; Foreign Ministry
statement)
- Chile (Foreign Ministry statement)
- China (Foreign Ministry statements)
- France (Foreign Ministry spokesperson)
- Germany (Foreign Minister Kinkel)
- Japan (Chief Cabinet Secretary)
- Russia (Foreign Ministry spokesperson; Ambassador Vasily
S. Sidorov)
- South Africa (Foreign Ministry statement)
- UK (Foreign Secretary Cook)
- US (President Clinton; Defense Secretary Cohen; Deputy
Defense Secretary Talbott)
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