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Text of report by Indian news agency PTI
New Delhi, 30 March: India Monday maintained that it would not sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in its present form but would not stand in the way of the pact.
"Our position is the same," Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told reporters here when asked whether India would be signing the CTBT considering the US' fresh efforts to push the treaty that has been hanging fire for over a decade.
India, which favours complete and verifiable disarmament, has held on to the position that the …