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Updated: 27 February, 2022
Did you know: Ukraine had condemned India after the 1998 Nuclear tests
More than 30 countries, including Ukraine, had stood against India’s security interests to express grave concern regarding India’s nuclear tests.
24 February, 2022
OpIndia Staff
India carried out their second nuclear tests in May 1998/ Image Source: News18
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As Russian troops carry out “special military operations” against Ukraine to “demilitarise” the country, the Ukrainian government is pleading with all major powers to intervene and stop the Russian advance.
With Ukraine facing a grave crisis, the Volodymyr Zelenskyy-led government has requested India to intervene and hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, given the special ties between the two countries.
On Thursday, Ukrainian Ambassador to India Igor Polikha urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to play a more significant role in de-escalating the tensions with Russia as Modi and Putin share a mutual respect. Perhaps, Ukraine understands the hegemony of India and intends to utilise PM Modi’s goodwill to de-escalate the ongoing tensions.
However, Ukraine’s relationship with India was not at all rosy in the past as it is today. The ties between Ukraine and India has seen ups and downs, especially after India decided to go nuclear. It is important to remember that Ukraine was one of those countries that vehemently opposed India’s nuclear tests in 1998 and had condemned India’s actions at the security council following the 1998 nuclear test.
In 1998, the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led Indian government decided to conduct five nuclear tests and had stunned the world. The nuclear tests – ‘Operation Shakti’ set India on a road that made not just a nuclear power but also assured the country’s long time security interests.
Following the nuclear tests, the United Nations Security Council had passed a resolution 1172 that had demanded that India refrain from further nuclear tests and had called them to become parties to Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) treaties.
The resolution had asked India to immediately stop their nuclear-weapon development programmes, to cease the development of ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons and any further production of fissile material for nuclear weapons. Ukraine, which was not part of the UNSC, had issued a separate statement condemning India’s actions to acquire nuclear technology.
In addition to the UNSC resolution, more than 30 countries, including Ukraine, had stood against India’s security interests to express grave concern regarding India’s nuclear tests.
In a disarmament conference held on May 14, 1998, under the aegis of the United Nations, the 30 countries had expressed their regret over India’s decision to carry out nuclear tests, which according to them, violated the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).
Speaking at the conference, Mykola Maimeskul, the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, had condemned the step taken by India, which endangered existing international arrangements for nuclear non-proliferation.
Today, as we speak, Ukraine faces a huge crisis with an imminent invasion by the Russians. Ukraine is desperate for powerful friends as its ally, the United States of America neither enjoys global hegemony anymore nor commands respect from the rest of the world. Twenty-two years after taking a stand that contradicts India’s security and strategic objectives, Ukraine today wants India to stand behind them and talk to Russians to end the humiliation being meted out upon them.
As they say, in international relations, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, only permanent interests.
https://www.opindia.com/2022/02/ukraine-had-opposed-indias-nuclear-program-condemned-india-in-1998/
“the United States of America neither enjoys global hegemony anymore nor commands respect from the rest of the world.”
Excellent! Marsha dropped NUMEROUS BOOMS on this leftist *judge*.
Wonder why the Kentani didn’t have to answer all of these great questions, quotes, etc., from Blackburn?
She just got to sit there with that smirk on her face, while Marsha read off these extremely important historical facts about this gal.
Maybe has to do with the process and schedule of the hearings?
Thank you for posting this. Marsha pulled no punches!!
NPR 6.4: THE ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF THE 1998 SANCTIONS …
India carried out first nuclear test in 1974
Food and humanitarian relief wasn’t banned. After 6 months, most sanctions were lifted.
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one of the few brave ones
lol
excellent
I was saying they were agitating Putin to invade Ukraine before he did it but, other than a distraction, I didn’t know why.
But now I see the big reset folks really using it to push their agenda Now.
In 1974, sanctions it was. There was a major natural disaster that happened in India (the mid-70s). I was too young. But I have seen Netherland send Butter in tins through a UN aid package. It was sold by the Indian Govt from Milk Diary very cheap rate. During that time Russia had sent Wheat. My father’s medicines for TB were sent by My aunt in the UK and the USA through middleman
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Old Joe is pushing us into a corner. Looks like China, Russia, India, Iran are going to be on the same team, brilliant, thanks Joe. SA going to accept payment for petro with Yuan. Looks like the petro dollar is gonna die. Gas prices going sky high. Can you say Great Reset, all part of the plan yo!
>>Food and humanitarian relief wasn’t banned. After 6 months, most sanctions were lifted.
Because Bill Clinton could do nothing. India was not 70s India. West realized it better to be a friend than leave them in Russia fold. India test was a very calculated move. They want to test miniature Bombs, triggers etc. The new govt came into power and they test all these points. The scientist behind that test became India’s President.
Ukraine did a big mistake, they gave up nukes. Same Libya did. After getting rid of nukes they were targeted by hyenas.
Private companies left for business reasons.
You mentioned Coca Cola.
How Coca Cola Lost India (And How They Won Her Back
Coca Cola: the American drink that is basically capitalism in a bottle. During the 20th century, as capitalism spread around the world, so to did Coca Cola, to the point where the only place left where you can get it today is North Korea. But Coca Cola has had an easier time in some places than in others. And in this post, we’re going to see how it took Coca-Cola almost half a century to capture one of the world’s biggest markets. India.
Cola-Cola, India, and socialism
Coca-Cola’s entry into India, like in many other markets, came on the back of pure opportunism. India had become independent in 1947. and within three years, Coca Cola had already established a bottling plant in New Delhi.
Now, India’s first independent government was determined to take India down the path of socialism, which of course meant supporting the local industry at the expense of foreign companies. This was obviously bad news for Coca Cola, mostly because it had very few sympathizers in the Indian government.
In response to socialism, Coca-Cola’s idea was to become entrenched in Indian culture before the government could really respond. After all, in those early years, independent India had much bigger problems to deal with than a foreign fizzy drink.
Thus while India was recovering from a bloody conflict with Pakistan, Coca-Cola was busy setting up a distribution network across the country. Coca-Cola’s timing was perfect. Just a few years later, Pepsi was denied entry into the Indian market while Coca-Cola was making bank.
Coca Cola had indeed become entrenched in Indian society and it would take a very severe crisis to bring it down. Such a crisis did happen in the mid-1970s when India was actually on the brink of revolution following the third war with Pakistan and almost dictatorial control of government by Indira Gandhi.
Civil unrest against the socialists was growing out of control. Nationwide strikes and political assassinations were becoming the norm. And to deal with that, Gandhi issued a state of emergency between 1975 and 1977. This dark period of Indian history saw thousands of politics thrown in jail, a total suspension of civil liberties, and government control over the press.
It also presented a great opportunity for the government to finally throw Coca-Cola out of India. Amidst the chaos, the socialists enacted a law that prevented foreign companies from owning more than 40% of any business in India. Coca-Cola would have to effectively give up its ownership.
And more importantly, it would have to surrender its secret recipe and to make it locally in India rather than importing it from the US.
Faced with little choice, Coca-Cola left India in 1977 alongside more than 50 other American companies.
When the US business left India, this created a huge void in the Indian soda market, not just for Coca-Cola, but for Sprite as well. The local competition was, of course, happy at this opportunity. And over the next decade, they expanded rapidly filling the market with substitute products. Even the government cashed in by grading a state-sponsored Cola called Double Seven to commemorate the end of the emergency.
Coca-Cola, however, was not so easily defeated. And when the socialists finally lost its grip on India in 1991, Coca-Cola came back with a vengeance. Riding a wave of economic liberalization, Coca Cola re-entered India in 1993.
That very same year, they acquired the most popular brands that have developed in their absence. In fact, All four sodas I mentioned earlier were purchased by Coca Cola for $40 million, giving the company a staggering 50% market share from day one.
https://medium.com/bc-digest/coca-cola-history-a6c55eb5dfe6
Thanks for these informative posts, with links/sources.
No, where I see sanctions in this.
I just woke up and learned the bleeding has slowed considerably to the point Stephanie has been sent home. PTL!
Can you provide proof to your claim that medicines were sanctioned in India and that is why they make their own? They had their own pharmaceuticals for a long time before they had their own nuclear weapons.
18 May 1974
India conducted its first nuclear detonation, described by India as a “peaceful nuclear explosion,” on 18 May 1974.
Then came sanctions and in 1975 Emergency. 3 years under emergency. Indira lost power in an election.
Sanctions had their effect but lasted for a few years.
Russia will have a short-term squeeze but the rest depends upon its citizens.
Are you seriously blaming sanctions on coca Cola and many other companies leaving india because of socialism takeover, way before any sanctions?
I think you are regurgitating what other people have told you.
That certainly doesn’t verify all the claims you have made about the sanctions.
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