We will not use nuclear weapons first, India clarifies 'no first use policy' at UN

Geneva, 4 October 2020, Sunday

Amid ongoing tensions with China, India has reaffirmed its policy on the use of nuclear weapons.

India reiterated its policy of non-use of nuclear weapons for the first time in the Special Weapons of the United Nations General Assembly.

Recently, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said that India's policy so far is not to use nuclear weapons first but to depend on the situation in the future. Amid tensions with China, Rajnath Singh's statement sparked speculation but India's statement at the United Nations. After the situation is cleared.

However, India's neighbor Pakistan does not believe in such a policy. Its leaders have repeatedly said that Pakistan would not hesitate to use nuclear weapons if necessary.

India's Foreign Secretary Harsh Sringala said in the session that it would only make sense if the process of denuclearization of the world was carried out in phases. For and is committed to nuclear disarmament throughout the world without discrimination.