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Pakistan Informs U.S. of Export Control Legislation
Pakistani officials yesterday told U.S. Commerce Undersecretary Kenneth Juster that a bill strengthening their country’s export control system on nuclear technology would soon be presented to Parliament, a Pakistani Foreign Ministry official said (see GSN, Feb. 24). Juster was briefed on the bill, which was approved earlier this month by the Pakistani Cabinet, during a two-day visit to Pakistan, the ministry official said. During talks in Islamabad, Juster praised Pakistan’s efforts “to streamline and strengthen its export control regime and welcomed the approval of the new export legislation by the Cabinet,” Pakistan’s state-run news agency reported. Senior Foreign Ministry official Tariq Usman Haider reportedly discussed during the talks the need to improve U.S.-Pakistan cooperation in civilian nuclear, dual-use and space technologies, according to the Associated Press (Munir Ahmad, Associated Press, May 16). Japan has also begun talks on export controls with Pakistan, a Japanese government source said Saturday. During discussions last month, officials from the Pakistani and Japanese foreign ministries agreed that Pakistani experts would travel to Japan for export control seminars, according to the source (Daily Yomiuri, May 17). Meanwhile, Pakistan has suggested that it would join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, but only as a designated nuclear weapons state, the Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported. In addition, India has changed its stance from opposing the treaty to saying that it could not join the treaty as a non-nuclear weapons state, according to knowledgeable sources. The United States has opposed recognizing either country as a nuclear weapons state (Dawn/HiPakistan.com, May 17).
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