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Canada urges India to sign CTBT, NPT

"Canada wants India to sign CTBT and NPT. India's signing will put into action what the country has been talking about so long," Canadian Minister of Natural Resources Herb Dhaliwal said in New Delhi.

Referring to Canada's position with regard to the Indo-Pak standoff, Dhaliwal said, "Canada has made it known that it is always ready to help the two countries to ease the tension between them.

"India's response to our offer has been that the matter is a bilateral one and can never be made a multilateral one. It has been almost 50 years now with no resolution to the tension. It is time now that the two countries look at some other means and ways to solve the matter.

"The Indo-Pak tension has also been detrimental to the economic development of the region as a whole. The rest of the world is moving ahead in developing trade blocs and even the SAARC has failed," he said.

"Nuclear disarmament is essential for a better world and if India signs the treaties then both the countries will be able to address issues relating to nuclear safety," Dhaliwal said on the sidelines of the inaugural session of the Business Development Mission to India.

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