22 September 2009
BEIJING: China on Tuesday rejected suggestions that it had engaged in nuclear proliferation by getting Pakistan to share technology and materials with North Korea and Iran. China has firmly opposed the proliferation of nuclear weapons in whatever forms, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu said here Tuesday.
The statement came after a London based newspaper published letters written by A Q Khan, regarded as the father of Pakistan nuclear bomb, revealing that his country helped China in enrichment technology in return for bomb blue-prints.
"As a member of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, China has always strictly abided by its international obligation on the non-proliferation issue," she was quoted as saying by the official Xinhua news agency.
The 74-year-old Khan also revealed that the Pakistani government had pushed him to share nuclear secrets with North Korea and Iran.
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