India Welcomes The Passege of Nuclear Bil

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Aanandaa

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Posted: 19 years ago

India welcomes passage of bill with caution

Friday, 17 November , 2006, 12:26

New Delhi: Reacting with cautious optimism, India on Friday welcomed the passage of the bill on civil nuclear deal by the US Senate but said it will await the final version of the legislation before drawing any conclusion.

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"We shall have to ensure that the final text of the bill is in conformity with the parameters set out in the July 18, 2005 agreement (reached in Washington after talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President George W Bush)," External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said.

"We welcome the passage of the bill in the senate by an overwhelming majority. We also appreciate the special efforts made by President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on behalf of the US Administration to ensure the passage of the Bill," Mukherjee told reporters at a joint press interaction here with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.

Mukherjee said the massive support the Bill received clearly "indicates a strong bipartisan support" for the initiative.

Noting that the legislative process was not yet complete, he said the joint conference for reconciling the bills cleared by the Senate and the House of Representatives would be held early December to give final shape to the legislation after which it will be voted by both Houses.

Sounding a note of caution, the Minister in an official statement earlier said, "We must await the final version before drawing any conclusions on the legislation."

In the statement, Mukherjee said "we now expect that the final version of the legislation, which would emerge after the joint conference of the House and the Senate, should adhere as closely as possible to the understandings reached between the two countries on July 18, 2005 and March 2, 2006 Separation Plan so that full civil nuclear cooperation between India and the US becomes a reality and contributes to India's energy security".

India, he said, expresses its sincere appreciation for the "tireless efforts" of Bush and Rice, who "worked personally to ensure the passage of the bill."

Courtesy:Sify.com

I am posting this here, because I want to know more about this..Want to know pros and cons of this...Generally looking to learn want the intelligencia of the DM thinks regarding this...

I shall come back with my views...😃

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Raksha

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Posted: 19 years ago

Hi!!!

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Posted: 19 years ago

From what I have till now (and since no-one posted this😉)
Since India would not join into NPT, they want to keep India on a official international treaty, since India kind of proved that sanctions wont work in India's case.

By signing in, India's nuclear resources get divided into two parts, military and civilian installations, US(essentailly IAEA) can come in and inspect the civilian installations. For this India will get knowledge transfer on the civilian usage

I think we can continue developing the military resources

Washington gets India into a psuedo NPT accord, and India gets the knowledge transfer to develope nuclear energy for domestic/civilian purposes, you know this seems like it is too perfect to be true

My take on this is
1. This sounds way to fishy, there might be catches in here that are not in a public domain, Indian Press is not doing a hard enough research on this. The US govt is far too anxious to get it signed, unless there is an Iran bill in the UN that has a relation, then this would make a sense
2. Where is India going to get fissile material to persue the military use for nuclear weapons

3. But I trust Mr Manmohan Singh not to be short sighted on India's interests(unless offcourse he was against India going nuclear though)

Dont quote me yet, I might just change the content as I look for more 😉

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Aanandaa

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Posted: 19 years ago

Thank you Sareg...That's quite a bit of Info...Looking forward to know more... 😃

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Posted: 19 years ago

Hi Friends!
I'm eager to know about this topic according to Indian and American perspective!!
please enligten me on this issue!!!!
Cheers,
Mythili

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Posted: 18 years ago

'Pretty tough' talks ahead on India nuclear deal: US

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Washington, June 6 (IANS) The US says it would like the civil nuclear deal with India done quickly, but admits 'some pretty tough negotiations' are underway to get the terms right.

Washington, June 6 (IANS) The US says it would like the civil nuclear deal with India done quickly, but admits 'some pretty tough negotiations' are underway to get the terms right.

'I think that if we can get the terms of the nuclear deal right, that it will move through. But these are some pretty tough negotiations,' State Department spokesperson Sean McCormack told reporters here Tuesday.

The two sides 'made some progress' during US key negotiator Nicholas Burns' visit to New Delhi last week 'and we would like to get this deal done as quickly as we possibly can', he said.

When asked to specify what progress Burns made, McCormack merely said, 'I think they aired some of their differences over a couple of the issues.'

'There are going to be follow-up conversations,' he said, referring to a possible meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President George W. Bush on the margins of the G-8 summit in Germany and a visit by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. 'And ...so we'd like to see it get done.'

After his talks with Burns, who is undersecretary of state for political affairs, Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon had claimed that 'considerable progress' had been made in narrowing differences on key issues and expressed optimism that they would make a deal.

But neither side has specified the sticky points and or how they propose to resolve them beyond saying that 'more work remains to be done' to finalise the implementing 123 agreement. Nor has a timeframe been set, though at one stage both were said to be keen on sewing it up ahead of the Singh-Bush meeting.

The major sticky points in the way of an agreement involve India's right to continue testing nuclear weapons, the right to reprocess spent fuel and the right to receive uninterrupted nuclear fuel. India's relations with Iran is yet another hurdle.

However, according to Menon, the Bush administration had informed India that there was nothing in the Hyde Act on the civilian nuclear deal that prevented it from honouring the commitments made in Singh-Bush joint statements of July 2005 and March 2006.

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