Washington: Any adjustment to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) must include India, Pakistan and Israel at the negotiating table as without their inclusion, efforts to achieve the goal of arms control process envisaged in the global disarmament roadmap will fail, Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency has said.

He also flayed the US for trying to forge new nuclear weapons instead of abiding by the NPT, which calls for a concrete roadmap for verified, irreversible nuclear disarmament, complete with a timetable, by America, Britain, France, Russia and China, the nuclear weapon powers recognized by the treaty.

Warning that India and Pakistan are unlikely to agree to give up their nuclear weapons unless the five Permanent Members of the Security Council do likewise, he said the logical point for bringing India and Pakistan into the arms control process would be a part of the global disarmament road map.

"Any new adjustment to the (NPT) regime must include India, Pakistan and Israel at the negotiating table. Without their inclusion in and commitment to the broad nonproliferation and security reform, our efforts will fail," El Baradei said at a two-day conference on International Non-Proliferation organized by the Carnegie Endowment yesterday (June 21, 2004).