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India, Pakistan agree hotline, pre-notifications on missile tests
NEW DELHI - Nuclear rivals India and Pakistan on Saturday agreed to notify each other before testing any ballistic missiles and to set up a hotline between their foreign secretaries, they said in a common statement. In a bid to prevent an accidental nuclear exchange “India and Pakistan have agreed to pre-notify each other before any missile test and have also agreed to set up a hotline between the foreign secretaries,” they said.
"Hello, Perv? Yep, it's me. Lissen, remember the pre-notification arrangement? You do? Great, great. Lissen, I'm giving you pre-notification. You've got, um, 60, no wait, 55 seconds, to get out of your house before our 'test' missile vaporizes it. No, 50. You still there?"
Indian Foreign Ministry senior official Meera Shankar said both sides had agreed “to operationalize the hotline between the two foreign secretaries” and upgrade an existing military hotline by September.
Posted by: Steve White 2005-08-07
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