India Enters MTCR India becomes the 35th member of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) this week as the members of the international anti-proliferation grouping agreed to admit India in the regime, this will burnish India’s credentials for the membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group(NSG). Many believe that India’s strategy was to first bag a membership of the other export control regime, MTCR, to make entry into NSG club easier. The ongoing five-nation visit of Modi includes three NSG countries — the US, Switzerland, and Mexico. Admission to the MTCR would open the way for India to buy high-end missile technology, also making more realistic its aspiration to buy surveillance drones such as the Predator, made by General Atomics. Italy had objected to admitting India but, after an unrelated bilateral dispute was resolved, did not object this time within a 10-day deadline after the group’s chair, the Netherlands, wrote to members suggesting India be welcomed.
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