On the issue of India and Turkey signing a free trade agreement, the Turkish minister said the working group set up to look into the matter has prepared a draft report and once India ratifies it, the process can move forward. The NSG will hold its next meeting in Vienna on November 11-12. We are ready to join the consensus if it is reached," Elvan said. "I believe India needs to work on this issue in order to convince the other countries. He said Turkey supports global nuclear disarmament. "In terms of the nuclear disarmament issue, we are going to concur with the NSG and I think the Indian government needs to convince the other countries," Turkey's Development Minister Lutfi Elvan said at a press conference in Delhi on Friday. New Zealand, Ireland, Brazil, Switzerland and Austria were also against making an exception in India's case.
India's NGS membership bid was backed by the US administration and about 30 other countries, but China opposed it on the ground that India was not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Turkey was among the countries whose support India failed to secure when the NSG examined the country's application in Seoul in June. Turkey wants a consensus on India's membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and remains non-committal about supporting New Delhi's bid to join the 48-nation bloc that controls the global civil nuclear technology trade.
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