Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 18:24:59 
 
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9 t.m. 11 augustus 1996

Aug 9, 1996 (Reuter) - India showed no sign on Friday of
backing down on a threat to block a global treaty banning
nuclear test blasts as scientists urged the government to test
a controversial intermediate-range Agni missile. Newspapers
reported that the state-run Defence Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO) had asked the government to resume tests
of the intermediate-range Agni missile.

Aug 9, 1996 (Reuter) - India reaffirmed Friday that it would  
block adoption of a global nuclear test ban treaty next week 
unless negotiators change a key clause which it says would
limit its sovereignty. Negotiators are seeking a way around
India's objections to   the clause, which says the pact only
becomes law when ratified  by 44 key states which possess
nuclear power reactors, including  India.

Aug 9, 1996 (Reuter) - The United States and China have agreed
a deal whereby Beijing would use its influence on Pakistan to
join  a global nuclear test ban treaty, a U.S. diplomatic
source said  Friday. The bilateral deal was reached in return
for U.S. concessions to meet China's demand to make it more
difficult to launch international on-site inspections under
the pact. To launch an inspection, the number of votes needed
at the treaty's 51-member executive council is being raised to
30 from a simple majority of 26, as in the current text.  

Aug. 9, 1996 (UPI) -- The Dominican navy Friday said it would  
keep close watch on a British ship laden with spent nuclear
fuel as it  passes through the strait separating the country
from Puerto Rico. The U.K.-registered Pacific Teal, carrying
more than 20 tons of spent nuclear fuel from a Japanese power
plant to Britain and France for reprocessing, was expected to
sail close to Dominican waters late Friday  or early Saturday. 
The ship, owned by Pacific Nuclear Transport Ltd., set sail
from Japan on July 12 and its passage through the Caribbean
sea has drawn  protests from environmental groups.    

Aug 10, 1996 (Reuter) - The United States has assured India
that it will not be punished with sanctions if it refuses  to
sign a global treaty banning nuclear test blasts, diplomats 
said on Saturday. Washington has urged Delhi not to veto the
treaty even if it decided it could not sign the accord.  

Aug 11, 1996 (Reuter) - State-run Taiwan Power Co is  
offering to pay local governments and residents $3.2 billion 
($116 million) for a new nuclear waste dump, newspapers
reported  on Sunday. The company will pay T$200 million after
initial qualification screening and the remaining T$3 billion
after the  new location is finalised, the United News Daily
said quoting company documents. The new dump would have a
capacity of one million barrels of nuclear waste, the amount
produced by Taiwan's four nuclear power plants over 40 years,
the documents said.