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India, Pakistan Exchange Lists of Nuclear Facilities


Sat 01 Jan 2022 | 05:00 PM
Ahmed Moamar

India and Pakistan exchanged today, Saturday, a list of each other's nuclear facilities under an agreement obligating the two countries to share relevant information on the first of January of each year, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs announced.

In a statement issued in this regard, the ministry said that India and Pakistan today exchanged – through diplomatic channels in the capitals of India and Pakistan – simultaneously – a list of nuclear facilities and other items of infrastructure, in accordance with the agreement on the prohibition of attacking nuclear facilities and facilities between the two countries.

This agreement entered into force on January 27, 1991, and stipulates that India and Pakistan inform each other of nuclear facilities on January 1 annually," the statement said.

The statement added, "This is the thirty-first time in a row that such lists have been exchanged between the two countries, and the first time was on January 1, 1992."

The statement pointed out that the term "nuclear facilities " includes research reactors, nuclear power, fuel manufacturing, uranium enrichment, isotope separation, and reprocessing facilities, in addition to facilities containing new or radioactive nuclear fuel and facilities for storing quantities of radioactive materials.