Dual use technology issue with India being sorted out: Obama

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Indicating a possible end to the long-standing denial of sophisticated dual use technology to India, President Barack Obama has said that the US Defence Department was working to sort it out.

He maintained that such technology, involving items which have civil and military use, was being given to India and that Pentagon "is working to address those occasional cases where we do not".

Acknowledging that there were "benefits" of providing such technology to New Delhi, Obama said in an interview, "Given all the interests and values we share, I'm confident that we can continue to work through any differences."

Obama's assurance comes in the backdrop of bickering between the two countries over dual use technology which has been denied to India for decades, particularly after it was put on the so-called entities list.

Denial of such technology has hit India's defence and space programmes amid fears in certain circles in the US that the sophisticated technology may be misused for military purposes, particularly nuclear weapons programme.

After Obama's India visit in 2010 the US government had announced the removal of 9 Indian space and defence-related organisations from the entities list.

However, the chief of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) V K Saraswat went public recently with the complaint that though the embargo had been lifted nothing had changed "in practice". There had not not been even a 10 per cent implementation.

Dual use technology issue with India being sorted out: Obama - Indian Express

 

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As Obama rightly says the 2 countries share Only the interests and values and NOT the TECHNOLOGY.
The US has never shared its state of the art technology in any field with even friendly countries such as Canada, Britain - because all technologies are properties of Private Companies protected by IPR and the companies will take "pound of flesh - in Shyleck's terms" for showing the tip of the know how.
The only exception is Israel, a Jewish country, the reasons are obvious.
This is not so with Russia where all technology are controlled by the Government and hence Russia silently shares the technology with India Eg. Iron and Steel making, Nuclear Technology, Space technology, Missiles technology and many more.
The Indo-US nuclear agreement which was signed with lot of fanfare in 2005 has not been implemented even after 7 years, whereas the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant built with Russian Technology and equipment is going to produce 2000 MW of power.
DRDO chief's anguish is correct.