Govt Pledge Not To Dilute Ctbt Stand

External affairs minister I K Gujral, in identical statements in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, said,

The government has taken a principled position which will be made known even in the UN which does not function through consensus unlike the Conference on Disarmament.''

Gujral reiterated that the government's decision to block the draft CTBT at Geneva was guided by the national consensus and