Bush against sanctions, will not impose CTBT

WASHINGTON, OCT. 15. The U.S. Presidential candidate of the Republican party, Mr. George Bush, has said that if elected he would not press India to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and favoured the immediate lifting of all sanctions against India, the visiting Congress leader, Mr. Murli Deora, and the chairman of Ethnic Republican in Detroit, Mr. Raj Bothra, who met Mr. Bush in Detroit yesterday, said.

``Mr. Bush understands the security needs of India. He is against CTBT and will not pressure India to sign the CTBT.''

Mr. Bush said he was for the immediate lifting of sanctions against India, imposed in the wake of the Pokharan nuclear tests, ``as he did not believe in the reasons given by the Clinton administration for continuing them.''

- PTI

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