Daschle Calls For Expansion Of Nunn-Lugar Program To India And Pakistan

By John Liang / January 4, 2002 at 5:00 AM
The Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program should be expanded to include not only Russia and the former Soviet states, but also India and Pakistan, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) said today. "The highly successful Nunn-Lugar program should be extended to India and Pakistan," Daschle said in a speech at the Center for National Policy in Washington, DC, although he did not provide specifics. "It should be broadened to keep Russia's biological and chemical weapons material and know-how from falling...

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