UNSC Resolution 1173

Subject – IR

Context – China questions India’s missile project. Foreign Ministry spokesperson refers to UNSCR 1172, adopted in 1998

Concept –

United Nations resolutions are formal expressions of the opinion or will of United Nations organs.
UNSC resolution 1172 was adopted in June 1998.
The resolution, in the aftermath of the 1998 nuclear tests, calls upon India and Pakistan immediately to stop their nuclear weapon development programmes, to refrain from weaponisation or from the deployment of nuclear weapons, to cease development of ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons and any further production of fissile material for nuclear weapons, to confirm their policies not to export equipment, materials or technology that could contribute to weapons of mass destruction or missiles capable of delivering them and to undertake appropriate commitments in that regard.