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The East Asia Summit has urged India to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, who chaired the summit of the East Asia Summit, stressed that willingness of the Philippines to be a part of the May 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference.
"We also encouraged those East Asia Summit participating countries that have not acceded to the CTBT to do so prior to the NPT Review Conference as it would serve as an impetus for having a successful NPT Review Conference," Vejjajiva said in his concluding statement.
The East Asia Summit brings together the 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and six participating countries: India, China, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and Australia.
India has mentioned expressed its non-willingness to sign and enforce NPT and CTBT, calling them discriminatory between nuclear haves and have-nots.
