Indian officials are adamant that the country will neither sign the treaty limiting nuclear weapons nor abandon its own nuclear development project.

One arms control treaty was signed in December and another, limiting long-range strategic weapons, is under negotiation.

Mr. President, what is your position on the question of signing a treaty limiting strategic offensive weapons?

A new strategic arms treaty will limit weapons, not ban them.

The one area where the two sides made no progress was in their talks on how to limit conventional weapons in Europe.

They had been hoping to conclude a pact limiting long-range strategic weapons, but that may not be possible.

The other is how to limit shorter-range nuclear weapons in Europe.

It especially wanted to limit nuclear weapons in these countries.

Your country has proposed the beginning of negotiations to limit weapons in outer space.

We must move forward to limit and eliminate weapons of mass destruction.