It should be noted that Iraq was not able to produce indigenously liquid propellant missile engines.

Uranium enrichment activities were started in 1987 at the Aramar Experimental Center, which developed the technology indigenously.

India successfully launched INSAT 2C, the third satellite in the indigenously built INSAT 2 series, on December 7, 1995.

The requirement to regulate also arises out of the need to ensure comprehensive control over unique or closely held, indigenously developed technology or know how.

Other initiatives supported by the Bank on a pilot basis include equity financing and technological and management support through joint ventures (for example, with indigenously owned enterprises in developed countries) and other equity financing mechanisms.

After 1991, Iraq retained capabilities to develop indigenously or modify missiles with a range close to 150 kilometres and, due to the nature of missile technology, was technically able to produce missiles that could exceed the prohibited range.

The indigenously developed unique plutonium rich mixed carbide fuel used in the fast breeder test reactor (FBTR) has performed extremely well, having operated past a burn up of 148,000 megawatt day per tonne (MWd t) without a single fuel pin failure.

INSAT 2C has now joined the other three satellites of the INSAT system launched earlier, namely, INSAT 1D, the last of the INSAT 1 series, and the indigenously built INSAT 2A and INSAT 2B, in vastly enhancing the space segment capacity.

Moreover, India is working to safeguard its naval superiority over China. In August, the reactor aboard India s first indigenously built nuclear submarine, INS Arihant, was activated, bringing the country one step closer to realizing its long sought goal of a nuclear triad the capability to launch nuclear weapons from land, air, and sea.

33. Among his country s latest accomplishments in the development of space technology and its utilization for peaceful purposes, his delegation cited the sixth in a series of state of the art remote sensing satellites, the IRS 1D, which was equipped to produce advanced imagery and had been launched by India s indigenously developed polar satellite launch vehicle into Sun synchronous orbit.

21. India has maintained effective export controls on nuclear materials as well as related technologies even though we are neither a party to the Non Proliferation Treaty nor a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group. Nonetheless, India is committed to non proliferation and the maintenance of stringent export control to ensure that there is no leakage of our indigenously developed know how and technologies.