::Role of Technology in India’s Foreign Relations::

Question : How Technology helped in the Past?

Answer:

• Technological experiments in agriculture
• Use of composite bow by Mongols on horse back
• Cannons used by Babur in the battle of Panipat.
• Use of atomic bomb for the immediate surrender of Japan.

Question : What requires in the pursuit of technology?

Answer :

• Innovation and improvisation
• The ability to question conventional assumptions and beliefs.
• Moving ahead of uncharted areas.

Question : Principles of India’s foreign policy.

Answer:

• Constructive
• Nuclear test ban

Question : What all are the arms control negotiations?

Answer:

• NPT
• Nuclear Test Bun treaties
• Chemical and biological weapons.

Question : What should be the main thrust of our policy in nuclear arena?

Answer :

• To continue to develop our nuclear programme
• Reject the NPT as an unequal and unbalanced treaty.
• To call for total abolition of nuclear weapons.
• Support CBM such as ban on first use of nuclear weapons.
• Measures to reduce false alerts and alarms, etc.

Question : The areas covered by civil nuclear co-operations are?

Answer:

• Facilitating civil nuclear commerce
• Import uranium fuel for its civilian enactors.
• Nuclear sector remain with government

Question : What is MTCR?

Answer :

• To curb the spread of unmarried delivery systems for nuclear weapons.

Question : What  was senaar Arrangement?

Answer :

• A multilateral technology export control regime with 40 participating states.

Question : What is chemical weapons convention?

Answer :

• Outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons.
• The prohibition of use and production of chemical weapons.
• The destruction of all chemical weapons.
• Systematic evaluation of chemical and mellitus plants.

Question : What is convention on Biological diversity?

Answer:

• Agreement covers all ecosystems, species, and genetic resources.
• Fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use of genetic resources especially for commercial use.
• Highlights the precaution us principle that where there is a threat of significant reduction or loss of biodiversity.

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