India-Pakistan exchange list of nuclear installations and prisoners
Continuing the 31-year exercise, India and Pakistan on Saturday exchanged a list of their nuclear installations under a bilateral agreement that prohibits both sides from attacking each other’s nuclear facilities.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said that the two countries exchanged the list of nuclear installations and facilities included under the Agreement on the Prohibition of Attacks Against Nuclear Installations between India and Pakistan.
This was done simultaneously through diplomatic channels in New Delhi and Islamabad.
The agreement, which entered into force in 1991, provides for both countries to notify each other on January 1 of every year about nuclear installations and facilities covered under the agreement.
“India and Pakistan today, through diplomatic channels simultaneously in New Delhi and Islamabad, exchanged a list of nuclear installations and facilities under the Agreement on the Prohibition of Attacks Against Nuclear Installations and Facilities between India and Pakistan. were involved,” the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement. Statement.
The exchange of the list came amid tensions in relations between the two countries over the Kashmir issue as well as cross-border terrorism.
“The agreement, which was signed on December 31, 1988, and entered into force on January 27, 1991, provides, inter alia, that India and Pakistan notify each other of nuclear installations and facilities that to be covered under the first agreement. of January of every calendar year,” the NEA said.
This is the 31st consecutive exchange of such lists between the two countries, the first being on 1 January 1992.
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