Indian will sign a U.N.-sponsored global treaty on preventing nuclear terrorism, the defense minister announced
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Jun. 17, 2006

Indian will sign a U.N.-sponsored global treaty on preventing nuclear terrorism, the defense minister announced Friday.

The treaty makes it a crime to possess radioactive material or weapons with the intention of committing a terrorist act, or to damage a nuclear facility. The decision to ratify the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism was made Friday at a Cabinet meeting headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee told journalists.

Indian will sign a U.N.-sponsored global treaty on preventing nuclear terrorism, the defense minister announced
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The treaty makes it a crime to possess radioactive material or weapons with the intention of committing a terrorist act, or to damage a nuclear facility.
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