Pakistan rejects Grossi’s new draft proposal for NSG membership

TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/Pakistan Foreign Office has rejected the Grossi formula for accepting new members into the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) as ‘discriminatory’ and unhelpful for advancing global non-proliferation objectives.”This would be clearly discriminatory and would contribute nothing in terms of furthering the non-proliferation objectives of the NSG,” Foreign Office spokesman Nafees Zakaria as saying.

According to some media reports, former NSG chairman Rafael Mariano Grossi had prepared a two-page document, explaining how a non-NPT state, like India and Pakistan, could join the group.

He was appointed as a facilitator for discussions among the NSG members after Seoul plenary meeting of the 48-nation nuclear trade cartel ended in a stalemate over membership applications from India and Pakistan. The deadlock persisted at the extraordinary plenary held in Vienna last month.

This month he submitted a two-page revised document containing a nine-point proposal on considering the applications of India and Pakistan, both of whom are non-NPT countries.