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India to apply for missile control regime membership

Xinhua, June 11, 2015 Adjust font size:

India has applied for the membership of Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), which controls trade of missile and space technology, a local daily said on Thursday.

New Delhi is expected to submit the application at the MTCR's plenary in September or October, said the Times of India online.

Such a membership will allow India to get access to world-class technology and export its own technology to countries that comply with the regime.

This signals a diplomatic move which would bring India closer to the 34-member elite missile technology control regimes, to which the country has remained suspicious for decades while building its own missile and space programs, said the report.

MTCR chair, Ronald Waess of Norway, could visit India next month. The United States would back India's bid, according the report. Endi