United Nations: India has firmly told the UN Security Council that it will not accept any interpretation of a resolution on Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), which imposes obligations arising from treaties that it has not signed or ratified.

However, it expressed its commitment to an "effective and comprehensive" system of export control of WMD-usable materials, equipment or technologies or their delivery system and to deny unlawful access to either State or "non-State actors".

"India will not accept externally prescribed norms or standards, whatever their source, on matters pertaining to domestic jurisdiction of its Parliament, including national legislation, regulations or arrangements which are not consistent with its constitutional provisions and procedures or contrary to its national interests or infringe on its sovereignty," Indian Ambassador Vijay K Nambiar told the 15-member Council.

The resolution hammered out by five permanent members of the Security Council - the United States, Britain, Russia, France and China - in negotiations extending over five months would compel nations to adopt and enforce laws prohibiting a terrorist or "non State actor" from getting weapons of mass destruction.

However, Nambiar said that validity of the focus on "non-State actors" in the resolution in no way diminishes State accountability on combating terrorism, in eliminating its support to infrastructure or linkages with the WMDs.