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Issues in Australian Foreign Policy: July to December 1998

Issues in Australian Foreign Policy: July to December 1998 “Conference On Disarmament Special Session Condemns Nuclear Testing”, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Media Release, FA73, 3 June 1998. 2 Karl Inderfurth, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs, Hearing of the Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Sub-Committee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Subject: Nuclear Tests in South Asia, June 3 1998. © Departments of Government & History, University of Queensland & Blackwell Publishers 1999. Issues in Australian Foreign Policy problems for the NPT. In effect, it amounted to an attempt to shut the closet door which the tests had so obviously thrown wide open. Nonetheless, this gradually became the posture which Canberra quietly assumed over the coming months.3 This was an improvement upon Canberra’s initial stance, but it conspicuously failed to spot the unique American interest in wanting to preserve the NPT’s status quo. By not politically acknowledging the “coming out” of India and Pakistan in the NPT context, they prevented Israel from being singled out as the one remaining threshold state. But for any state like Australia that was even remotely close to the subcontinent, this second approximation still amounted to a head-in-the-sand posture. Amongst other constituencies, it was particularly unlikely to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Politics and History Wiley

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Wiley
Copyright
Departments of Government & History, University of Queensland & Blackwell Publishers 1998
ISSN
0004-9522
eISSN
1467-8497
DOI
10.1111/1467-8497.00064
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“Conference On Disarmament Special Session Condemns Nuclear Testing”, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Media Release, FA73, 3 June 1998. 2 Karl Inderfurth, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs, Hearing of the Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Sub-Committee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Subject: Nuclear Tests in South Asia, June 3 1998. © Departments of Government & History, University of Queensland & Blackwell Publishers 1999. Issues in Australian Foreign Policy problems for the NPT. In effect, it amounted to an attempt to shut the closet door which the tests had so obviously thrown wide open. Nonetheless, this gradually became the posture which Canberra quietly assumed over the coming months.3 This was an improvement upon Canberra’s initial stance, but it conspicuously failed to spot the unique American interest in wanting to preserve the NPT’s status quo. By not politically acknowledging the “coming out” of India and Pakistan in the NPT context, they prevented Israel from being singled out as the one remaining threshold state. But for any state like Australia that was even remotely close to the subcontinent, this second approximation still amounted to a head-in-the-sand posture. Amongst other constituencies, it was particularly unlikely to

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Australian Journal of Politics and HistoryWiley

Published: Jun 1, 1999

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