Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes:

(i)

the statement by the Prime Minister, Mr Howard, on 28 March 2006 that ‘whilst India is not a signatory to the [Nuclear Non-Proliferation] treaty,  everybody knows that, her behaviour since exploding a device in 1974 has been impeccable’,

(ii)

that India conducted nuclear tests in 1998, prompting the Australian Government to sever defence links with India,

(iii)

that India resumed missile testing in 2001, using an intermediate range ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead,

(iv)

that India has still not become a party to either the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty nor the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and

(v)

India has a well-developed, active and secret program to outfit its uranium enrichment program and circumvent other countries’ technology export control efforts, according to a recently-released report by the United States of America-based Institute of Science and International Security; and

(b)

calls on the Prime Minister to rule out any change to the Government’s policy of refusing to permit the sale of uranium to India.

Question negatived.