Japanese Government Must Not Sign the Japan-India Nuclear Agreement

Japanese Government Must Not Sign the Japan-India Nuclear Agreement: We Demand Peace Diplomacy Befitting the A-Bombed Country

Yasui Kazumasa, Secretary General, Japan Council against A and H Bombs (Gensuikyo)

December 15, 2015

On December 12, Prime Minister Abe Shinzo issued a Joint Statement with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and announced that they had agreed in principle to conclude a bilateral agreement for cooperation in nuclear energy.

However, India is a nuclear country which in 1998 openly went nuclear by developing and testing nuclear weapons, and continues to refuse to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The government of the A-bombed Japan must not offer nuclear technology to such a country and give a helping hand to its development of nuclear weapons.  The Japan-India nuclear agreement should not be signed.   Continue reading “Japanese Government Must Not Sign the Japan-India Nuclear Agreement”