Pakistan Wants Nuclear Energy Cooperation With U.S.

Pakistan yesterday said it wanted expanded energy cooperation with international nuclear suppliers, including the United States, the Associated Press of Pakistan reported (see GSN, July 25).

“Our position constantly has been that the Nuclear Suppliers Group should extend cooperation to Pakistan for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy under the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards,” said Foreign Office spokesman Naeem Khan.

“We also conveyed to NSG partners [at a meeting earlier this year] that Pakistan would like that the nonproliferation regime should accommodate the ground nuclear realities of the non-NPT states,” he said, referring to countries not party to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (see GSN, April 11).

Khan’s statements followed last week’s announcement by U.S. President George W. Bush of a possible nuclear energy deal with India. The spokesman referred to Islamabad’s strategic relationship with Washington, adding that “we would like to extend this cooperation in multiple fields including the peaceful use of nuclear energy, high technology and the peaceful use of space technology” (Associated Press of Pakistan/BBC Monitoring, July 25).

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