USA: U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds hearing in Washington to discuss India/U.S. nuclear energy cooperation

Record ID: 1382580

  • Title: USA: U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds hearing in Washington to discuss India/U.S. nuclear energy cooperation
  • Date: 27th April 2006
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (English) (ROBERT GALLUCCI - DEAN OF THE WALSH SCHOOL OF FOREIGN SERVICE AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY AND AGAINST U.S./INDIA NUCLEAR COOPERATION SAYING: "I Think people see this deal for what it is , it's an American effort to improve its relationship with India which is a good idea. I think most people see it as having something to do with our uncertainty with Ch
  • Embargoed: 12th May 2006 15:32
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  • Location: Usa
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: International Relations,Defence / Military
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  • Story Text: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on Wednesday (April 26) to discuss U.S and Indian atomic energy cooperation.
    The U.S. and India are negotiating a detailed nuclear cooperation agreement in a sweeping deal which would give India access for the first time in three decades to U.S. and foreign nuclear technology, including fuel and reactors, to meet India's soaring civilian energy needs.
    In the breakthrough agreement-in-principle on civilian nuclear cooperation last July 18, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made a unilateral declaration that India would maintain a voluntary moratorium on nuclear weapons testing.
    India has long refused to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, arguing it divides the world into nuclear haves and have-nots.
    Ashton Carter, Co-diretor of the Preventative Defense Project, and supporter of U.S/India nuclear cooperation said "India has a nuclear weapons for a long time. They are a country in good standing. It's time to recognize them for what t hey are and when it comes to North Korea or Iran, the rogues so called, They're making their decisions for reasons t hat don't have much to do with the principle of non proliferation regime."
    The nuclear deal represents a major warming in U.S.-India relations but has raised fears that it waters down efforts to curb the spread of nuclear weapons.
    Robert Gallucci, an opponent of the U.S./India nuclear cooperation told Reuters many see the agreement as "a willingness of the United States to compromise fundamentally on principles that have guided our policy for decades over the spread of nuclear weapons."
    Before it goes into effect, the agreement must be approved by the U.S. Congress and the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group.
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