NDTV:
The US has supported India’s entry into the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) that would enable it to share sensitive missile technologies like armed drone with New Delhi.
“The US side affirms its support for India’s membership in the Missile Technology Control Regime at its upcoming plenary, the Nuclear Suppliers Group, and in the other global nonproliferation export control regimes,” said a joint statement issued at the conclusion of the India-US Strategic and Commercial Dialogue at the State Department yesterday.
Early this year, India had formally applied for the membership of MTCR, a club of 34 countries that controls trade in missile and space technology.
A membership of MTCR would bring India closer to technology control regimes that it had fought and worked around for decades to build its missile and space programs…
