U.S., India sign unprecedented nuclear deal
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Topic: U.S., India sign unprecedented nuclear deal
Posted By: love
Subject: U.S., India sign unprecedented nuclear deal
Date Posted: 19 October 2008 at 3:58am
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file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Admin/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_editdata.mso - file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Admin/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_editdata.mso -
file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Admin/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_editdata.mso -
file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Admin/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_editdata.mso - file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Admin/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_editdata.mso - WASHINGTON - The United States and India
signed an accord Friday that allows American businesses to sell nuclear fuel,
technology and reactors to India, reversing a three-decade ban on atomic trade
with the fast-growing nuclear-armed Asian power. file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Admin/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_editdata.mso - The civilian nuclear cooperation
agreement, the result of three years of often frustrating political and
diplomatic wrangling, marks a major shift in U.S. policy toward India after
decades of mutual wariness. India has faced a nuclear trade ban since its first
atomic test in 1974 and has refused to sign nonproliferation accords. file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Admin/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_editdata.mso - "This is truly a historic
occasion," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a crowd gathered for
the signing ceremony in the State Department's ornate Benjamin Franklin Room.
"Many thought this day would never come, but doubts have been silenced
now." file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Admin/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_editdata.mso - The two countries "now stand as
equals, closer together than ever before," said Rice, with India's foreign
minister, Pranab Mukherjee, sitting by her side. file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Admin/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_editdata.mso - The Bush administration portrays the
accord as the cornerstone of a new strategic relationship with a friendly
democracy that borders China and Pakistan and that supporters hail as a
responsible nuclear power. file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Admin/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_editdata.mso - India's government hopes the deal will
bring a new source of desperately needed energy as it works to lift millions
out of poverty. file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Admin/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_editdata.mso - Mukherjee said his country looks forward
to working with American companies eager to enter India's multibillion-dollar
nuclear market. More access to nuclear power, he said, also will boost India's
industry and rural development and help every sector of the economy grow. file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Admin/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_editdata.mso - He called the accord a sign "of the
transformed relationship and partnership that our two countries are building
together." file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Admin/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_editdata.mso - Nuclear proliferation file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Admin/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_editdata.mso - Opponents in the United States say the
extra fuel the measure provides could boost India's nuclear weapons stockpile
by freeing up its domestic fuel for use in weapons. That, they say, could spark
a nuclear arms race in Asia, where neighboring Pakistan and China also have
atomic weapons. file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Admin/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_editdata.mso - U.S. lawmakers opposed to the plan have
said it ruins the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the global agreement that
provides civilian nuclear trade in exchange for a pledge from nations not to
pursue nuclear weapons and which India refuses to sign. file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Admin/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_editdata.mso - President Bush this week signed into law
the congressionally approved plan to start nuclear trade in exchange for
safeguards and U.N. inspections at India's civilian, but not military, nuclear
plants. The accord marks a rare foreign policy victory for Bush in his final
months in office. |
Since our economy here in the U.S can not afford to
continue in the nuclear industry, we are outsourcing dangerous jobs (a threat
to all lands & people) to places like India. This is a shameful
decision on the part of the U.S. government. These jobs have cost people their
lives and the security and safety of the environment in the U.S. We can
not continue to operate this way as a global community. 
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Posted By: seekshidayath
Date Posted: 20 October 2008 at 4:14am
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Wa'laikum Salam WRWB,
I don't check this section much. Thanks for notifying me.
Yes, finally the deal is done. After lots of discussions and debates, this bill was passed in India. Even the ruling govt was about to collapse. But thanks to the politics of India, that it was finally, sent
Even i were amongst those who opposed the deal. Anyways, now that it is done, its waste of time to oppose it. We are now to face the consequences.
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