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POLITICS
PM should reject US terms: BJP
POLITICAL BUREAU
Posted online: Friday, June 30, 2006 at 0000 hours IST
NEW DELHI, JUNE 29: The BJP on Thursday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to reject the “conditions” imposed by the draft US Bill on Indo-US civilian nuclear co-operation, saying that this would restrict the country’s independent nuclear doctrine and render infructuous its minimum nuclear deterrent policy.
Saying that the US Bill “negated” the country’s achievements on the nuclear front in the last four decades, senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi said the nuclear deal was “unacceptable” as it “slipped the country into US dependency.”
“The then prime minister AB Vajpayee announced a voluntary moratorium on nuclear testing after the 1998 atomic detonations. But after this deal, India will be bound by the US not to conduct any nuclear testing,” Joshi said. His comments came two days after a key US Congress House committee endorsed the agreement by a 37-5 vote.
“Looking at the language and the terms and conditions to be fulfilled for the deal to take its real shape, it becomes clear that American negotiators have succeeded in India getting into the CTBT regime and also signing a fissile material cutoff treaty—a draft of which has been recently introduced by the US in the Commission on Disarmament in Geneva,” he said.
Besides, he said it appeared as if India had to promote US’ foreign policy.
Joshi said the energy access that the deal promised to India was too big a compromise with national security. “India is set to purchase six 1,000 MW-plus enriched uranium reactors costing $50 billion. But power generated from all nuclear sources will still not exceed 6% of the total energy produced in the country in 2020 compared to 3% today,” he said.
POLITICS
PM should reject US terms: BJP
POLITICAL BUREAU
Posted online: Friday, June 30, 2006 at 0000 hours IST
NEW DELHI, JUNE 29: The BJP on Thursday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to reject the “conditions” imposed by the draft US Bill on Indo-US civilian nuclear co-operation, saying that this would restrict the country’s independent nuclear doctrine and render infructuous its minimum nuclear deterrent policy.
Saying that the US Bill “negated” the country’s achievements on the nuclear front in the last four decades, senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi said the nuclear deal was “unacceptable” as it “slipped the country into US dependency.”
“The then prime minister AB Vajpayee announced a voluntary moratorium on nuclear testing after the 1998 atomic detonations. But after this deal, India will be bound by the US not to conduct any nuclear testing,” Joshi said. His comments came two days after a key US Congress House committee endorsed the agreement by a 37-5 vote.
“Looking at the language and the terms and conditions to be fulfilled for the deal to take its real shape, it becomes clear that American negotiators have succeeded in India getting into the CTBT regime and also signing a fissile material cutoff treaty—a draft of which has been recently introduced by the US in the Commission on Disarmament in Geneva,” he said.
Besides, he said it appeared as if India had to promote US’ foreign policy.
Joshi said the energy access that the deal promised to India was too big a compromise with national security. “India is set to purchase six 1,000 MW-plus enriched uranium reactors costing $50 billion. But power generated from all nuclear sources will still not exceed 6% of the total energy produced in the country in 2020 compared to 3% today,” he said.
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