South Africa to Chair Nuclear Suppliers Group

South Africa will chair the Nuclear Suppliers Group in 2007-2008, the Foreign Ministry announced yesterday (see GSN, May 25).

The 45-nation group sets guidelines for international nuclear trade with the goal of preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapon technology (South African Press Association/Mail and Guardian, Oct. 12).

South Africa has expressed support for the pending U.S.-Indian nuclear trade deal, an arrangement that would require the group to either exempt New Delhi from the group’s nonproliferation guidelines or ease the guidelines altogether (see GSN, Sept. 15; Greg Webb, GSN, Oct. 13).

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