{"id":43920,"date":"2022-04-27T02:13:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T17:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/26\/indias-oversight-of-arms-suppliers"},"modified":"2022-04-27T02:13:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T17:13:22","slug":"indias-oversight-of-arms-suppliers-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43920","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s oversight of arms suppliers | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s right to guard against UK components making their way to Vladimir Putin, but India\u2019s controls are robust, writes <strong>Burzine Waghmar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You cited a recent report byJack Watling and Nick Reynolds, my Royal United Services Institute colleagues (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/apr\/22\/johnson-vows-to-stop-uk-exports-to-india-ending-up-in-russia\" title=\"\">Johnson vows to stop UK exports to India ending up in Russia, 22 April<\/a>), who rightly cautioned the need to vet British defence exports, specifically to seven countries, including India.<\/p>\n<p>That this is timely, lest dual-use components make their way to Vladimir Putin, merits no reiteration. But I must point out, in a year marking the 75th anniversary of the largest developing democracy, that institutionalised Indian oversight of its domestic armaments suppliers across public and private sectors, and a rules-bound administrative and judicial structure that robustly regulates civilian-military relations, has not only pre-empted individual or corporate drives and ambitions, but revealed an absence of rogue scientists, politicised soldiers and surreptitious sales to date.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/26\/indias-oversight-of-arms-suppliers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s right to guard against UK components making their way to Vladimir Putin, but India\u2019s controls are robust, writes Burzine WaghmarYou cited a recent report byJack Watling and Nick Reynolds, my Royal United Services Institute colleagues (Johnson vows&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[709,221,62,419,61,52,818,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arms-trade","category-europe","category-india","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43921,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43920\/revisions\/43921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}