1999 bilateral agreement and governance treaty between India and Pakistan
Not to be confused with Treaty of Lahore.
Lahore Declaration
Hindi: लाहौर घोषणा (Lahore Ghoshana)
Urdu: لاہور اعلانیہ (Lahore Aylaniya)
Official flags of India and Pakistan at the Wagha border. In 1999, Indian Prime minister and the high-profile delegation came to Pakistan from Wagha Border and received by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Type
Strategic nuclear governance, control, and law
Drafted
19 December 1998 – 19 January 1999 (Draft period: 1 month)
Signed
21 February 1999; 25 years ago (1999-02-21)
Location
Lahore, Pakistan
Effective
21 February 1999 (1999-02-21)
Condition
Ratification of both parties
Expiration
Agreement is still in effect
Negotiators
Minister of External Affairs of India and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan
Signatories
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Prime Minister of India) Nawaz Sharif (Prime Minister of Pakistan)
Parties
India Pakistan
Ratifiers
Parliament of India Parliament of Pakistan
Depositary
Government of Pakistan and Government of India
Languages
Hindi
Urdu
English
The Lahore Declaration was a bilateral agreement and governance treaty between India and Pakistan. The treaty was signed on 21 February 1999, at the conclusion of a historic summit in Lahore, and ratified by the parliaments of both countries the same year.[1]
Under the terms of the treaty, a mutual understanding was reached towards the development of atomic arsenals and to avoid accidental and unauthorised operational use of nuclear weapons. The Lahore Declaration brought added responsibility to both nations' leadership towards avoiding nuclear race, as well as both non-conventional and conventional conflicts. This event was significant in the history of Pakistan and it provided both countries an environment of mutual confidence. In a much-covered televised press conference in both countries, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee signed the treaty. It was the second nuclear control treaty signed by both countries and pledged to continue the use of the first treaty, NNAA, was signed in 1988. The Lahore treaty was quickly ratified by the parliaments of India and Pakistan and came into force the same year.
The Lahore Declaration signalled a major breakthrough in overcoming the historically strained bilateral relations between the two nations in the aftermath of the publicly performed atomic tests carried out by both nations in May 1998. Widely popular in the public circles in Pakistan and hailed by the international community, the relations would very soon lose impetus after infiltration of Pakistan forces into Kargil, which led to the outbreak of the 1999 Indo-Pakistan War in May 1999.
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