81.  India and Pakistan are considered threshold nuclear states in the region.

82.  India has ruled out talks with Pakistan over the lingering dispute between the two nuclear states.

83.  India, a potential nuclear state along with Pakistan and Israel, Thursday maintained its threat to block the treaty unless the draft being negotiated in Geneva was modified.

84.  China is the only declared nuclear state to oppose the sweeping ban after it was endorsed in Moscow by Russia for the first time.

85.  China is the only declared nuclear state to oppose the sweeping ban after it was endorsed by Russia for the first time at the Moscow meeting.

86.  Earlier a foreign office spokesman said Pakistan wanted the CTBT to come into force after it was ratified by the five nuclear powers and three threshold nuclear states.

87.  Even Japan, which has said it supports an indefinite extension of the NPT, is not satisfied with the degree of commitment by the nuclear states to disarmament.

88.  The two other nuclear states which emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan and Ukraine, have already transferred their nuclear weapons to Russia.

89.  It sets out concrete steps, starting with a call to the five declared nuclear states to commit themselves unequivocally to the elimination of such weapons.

90.  Kashmir has been claimed by both India and Pakistan and has been the cause of two of the three wars between the two nuclear states.