India has been granted accession to the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) through a consensus decision by all MTCR members.
All formal procedures for membership have now been finalised, and the Chairman of the joint Netherlands-Luxembourg Chairmanship of the MTCR, Ambassador Piet de Klerk, has announced, following close consultation with the French MTCR Point of Contact, that the Republic of India is now formally the 35th member of the Regime.
India has joined Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, the UK, and the USA.
The MTCR expressed its conviction that India's membership will strengthen the international efforts to prevent proliferation of delivery systems (ballistic missiles or unmanned aircraft) capable of delivering weapons of mass destruction.
India's full participation in the Regime will soon be evoked at the upcoming annual plenary meeting of the MTCR in South Korea in October 2016.
