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This story is from June 23, 2016

PM Modi urges China to make fair, objective assessment of India's NSG application

As PM Modi is meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Tashkent on Thursday, sources said that the issue of to the Nuclear Suppliers Group will be discussed later in the day at a plenary meeting the group is currently holding in Seoul. India and Pakistan have both applied for membership to NSG.
PM Modi meets China's Xi in Tashkent as NSG plenary is underway in Seoul
As PM Modi is meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Tashkent on Thursday, sources said that the issue of to the Nuclear Suppliers Group will be discussed later in the day at a plenary meeting the group is currently holding in Seoul. India and Pakistan have both applied for membership to NSG.
Key Highlights
  • PM Modi is meeting with China's Xi in an attempt to coax him into agreeing to India joining the NSG.
  • Pakistan, earlier, thanked China for its support for Islamabad's membership to the NSG.
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged China on Thursday to make a fair and objective assessment of India's bid for membership to the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) on its own merit . The PM also asked China to "join the emerging consensus", which is support from more and more nations for India's membership to the 48-nation atomic trading club.
Modi and Xi met Tashkent on Thursday, even as the issue of India's membership to the NSG will be discussed later in the day at a plenary meeting the group is currently holding in Seoul.
The meeting took place on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization(SCO) underway in Tashkent.
India and Pakistan have both applied for membership to the elite nuclear club of 48 countries. Sources told ANI the issue of India's application for NSG membership was brought up earlier today as well, in Seoul.
In fact, Pakistan, earlier on Thursday, thanked China's President Xi for his government's support for Islamabad's membership to the elite nuclear club.
In the meanwhile, India's foreign secretary S Jaishankar is pressing the flesh in Seoul , with the same goal in mind.
Seoul and Tashkent are both venues for meetings that will hold the key to India's membership to the elite NSG.
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PM Modi holds talks with President Xi of China
That's because even as the Seoul meeting is taking place, leaders of India, Pakistan and China are attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit that's currently underway in Tashkent.
It was after a meeting in Tashkent that Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain thanked China.

"Only granting India the membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group will shift the balance of power," Hussain reportedly said in Tashkent, according to Pakistani news outlet Geo TV.
China has consistently opposed India's entry to the group, saying that it isn't a signatory of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and that if India is admitted, Pakistan, too, should be let in to the group.
To be sure, Pakistan has far from a blemish-less record when it comes to nuclear proliferation. On Wednesday, US government sources told news agency ANI that that Pakistan is selling nuclear materials and technology to pariah, North Korea.
With inputs from Agencies
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