Austria’s foreign minister on Thursday slammed India and Pakistan’s recent missile tests, insisting states’ continued pursuit of nuclear weapons was “flat out irresponsible”. “The tests of an Indian long-range missile a week ago and of an intermediate-range missile by Pakistan on Wednesday are unsettling and suggest an intensifying arms race on the subcontinent,” Michael Spindelegger said in a statement. This “would not only be a threat to stability in Asia, but would also present a threat to global peace.”
India last Thursday tried out a new missile with a range of over 5,000 kilometres (3,100 miles), and Pakistan followed on Wednesday by test-firing an intermediate-range ballistic missile of its own. Both have the capability of carrying a nuclear weapon. “It is flat out irresponsible that the Sword of Damocles that is nuclear destruction still hangs above humanity,” Spindelegger said in unusually harsh tones.
Austria is a very small country with a population of about 8 million which is just 1/3 of population of Delhi NCR. Pakistan has 180 millions and India 1210 millions. Togather,we have to take care of 1400 million people. Our posturings and genuine querrels can not be understood by such irresponsible persons like Michael Spindleger, habitual of off the cuff remarks. Austria is under the protection of NATO which has the nukes that can destroy this world many a times over. NATO countries have been looting the world's poor countries at gun point. On what moral pedastal, the Austrian FM is talking of intensifying arms race in south asia. Does it not appear that a dacoit is asking the victims not to take out any arms to face them? Asian countries are more human and more responsible than these european dacoits.
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