Pakistan and India have agreed to recommend to their Foreign Secretaries to extend the validity of the “agreement on reducing the risk from accidents relating to Nuclear Weapons” for another five years.
Pursuance to the agreement between the two Foreign Ministers in New
Delhi on 27 July 2011, the Sixth Round of Expert Level Talks on Nuclear
Confidence Building Measures was held in Islamabad on 27 December 2011.
Pakistan delegation was led by Munwar Saeed Bhatti, Additional
Secretary (UN&EC), Ministry of Foreign Affairs. D.B. Venkatesh
Varma, Joint Secretary (DISA), Ministry of External Affairs, led the
Indian side.
The talks were held in a cordial and constructive atmosphere.
Both sides reviewed the implementation and strengthening of existing
CBMs in the framework of Lahore MoU, and agreed to explore possibilities
for mutually acceptable additional CBMs.
The two sides agreed to recommend to their Foreign Secretaries to
extend the validity of the “Agreement on Reducing the Risk from
Accidents Relating to Nuclear Weapons” for another five years.
Both sides will report the progress in talks to their respective Foreign Secretaries. SANA
