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U.S. happy over restoration of LoC

Sridhar Krishnaswami
The Hindu
July 22, 1999


    Title: U.S. happy over restoration of LoC
    Author: Sridhar Krishnaswami
    Publication: The Hindu
    Date: July 22, 1999
    
    The telephone call made by the U.S. President, Mr. Bill Clinton, to
    the Prime Minister, Mr A. B. Vajpayee, was to say that the United
    States was "pleased to see that the Line of Control" between India and
    Pakistan "had been largely restored", according to a spokesman of the
    National Security Council.  The conversation had lasted for 20
    minutes.
    
    Mr. P. J. Crowley told presspersons that Mr. Clinton "saluted Mr.
    Vajpayee and India for exercising great restraint during this latest
    situation and again encouraged the Prime Minister to find a way to
    move ahead with bilateral dialogue on restoring the Lahore process for
    both countries to move forward."
    
    On his part, the Indian Prime Minister "saluted the President for his
    efforts to help defuse the situation.  Mr. Vajpayee also expressed his
    condolences to the President and the American people on the Kennedy
    accident," Mr. Crowley said.
    
    Meanwhile, the President, in a statement on the Comprehensive Test Ban
    Treaty (CTBT), once again urged the Senate to ratify the treaty
    nothing that some Senators were even refusing to consider it.  "One
    hundred and fifty two countries have signed, 41 have ratified, but if
    our Senate fails to act, this treaty and all the protection and
    increased safety it offers the American people cannot enter into force
    for any country. That would make it harder to prevent further nuclear
    arms competition, and as we have seen, for example, in the nuclear
    tests in India and Pakistan," Mr Clinton remarked.
    
    "Do we want these countries and other regional rivals to join a test
    ban treaty, or do went them to scrap a treaty that could constrain
    them?  Do we want to walk away from a treaty under which those
    countries and scores of others have agreed not to conduct nuclear
    tests?," the President remarked, going on to stress that it was
    strongly in American national interest to ratify the CTBT.
    



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