Brazil, South Africa protest India
Dated 3/8/2005
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3 August 2005: Brazil and South Africa have told the US state department that if India is accommodated as a nuclear weapons state, then some of the NPT members would like to withdraw unilaterally, which would further weaken the non-proliferation initiative.
The two states petitioned the United States together, which is unlikely to change its position in respect of India, and they have now threatened to convince the Nuclear Suppliers Group that their own decisions to denuclearise were specific to a time and a set of circumstances which do not prevail now.
Both to the US and NSG members, the two countries have protested that their
