TIL Desk/National/New Delhi- In its first entry into any multilateral export control regime, India is all set to join the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) tomorrow as a full member, three days after it failed to get NSG membership due to stiff opposition from China and a few other countries.
“We applied for the membership of MTCR last year and all the procedural formalities have been completed. Tomorrow, Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar will sign the document of accession into MTCR in the presence of Ambassadors of France, Netherlands and Luxembourg,” External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup said.
Significantly, China, which stonewalled India’s entry into the 48-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group at the just-concluded Seoul plenary, is not a member of 34-nation MTCR. Since its civil nuclear deal with the US, India has been trying to get into export control regimes like NSG, MTCR, the Australia Group and the Wassenaar Arrangement that regulate the conventional, nuclear, biological and chemicals weapons and technologies.
