India could face isolation if deal not through: Pranab

[Proud to be Pakistani]

For the Nuclear deal and other purchases also, the future of India lies with Russia since Russia is depending on India for Purchase of its Military Equipement majorly. India is the biggest Buyer of Russian Military Hardware in all aspects.

No decisions only show a debate going on within the establishment since US is not attaching alot of Stings with offer to India for technology transfer as normally happens with all others like Pakistan, who are not even offered and oppressed and if offered then with so many strings attached that you decide not to play the Guitar with the offer.

 

[ashfaque]

For the Nuclear deal and other purchases also, the future of India lies with Russia since Russia is depending on India for Purchase of its Military Equipement majorly. India is the biggest Buyer of Russian Military Hardware in all aspects.

No decisions only show a debate going on within the establishment since US is not attaching alot of Stings with offer to India for technology transfer as normally happens with all others like Pakistan, who are not even offered and oppressed and if offered then with so many strings attached that you decide not to play the Guitar with the offer.

Hey its all about left parties think that US is not reliable and few clauses in the 123 agreement may harm India's freedom for nuclear testing, in that case US sanctions may harm India's planning for energy.

But any how every thing will be shorted out OR current congress government is looking for election time so that even if Left parties pull out the support they can go ahead and finish the job.

 

[KENT]

For the Nuclear deal and other purchases also, the future of India lies with Russia

Future of India never lies with any other country in the world, India is the master of its own destiny.

since Russia is depending on India for Purchase of its Military Equipement majorly.

This is no longer be the case which is quite evident from arms-twisting by Russsians in hiking the cost of refurbishment of Gorshkov, there had even ready to return India's deposit of $ 600 million if India declined from paying extra cost.

India is the biggest Buyer of Russian Military Hardware in all aspects.

This is a thing of past, now the spectrum has slightly change on account of both Homegrown as well Joint production of Military hardware.

No decisions only show a debate going on within the establishment since US is not attaching alot of Stings with offer to India for technology transfer as normally happens with all others like Pakistan, who are not even offered and oppressed and if offered then with so many strings attached that you decide not to play the Guitar with the offer.

The things is that India is a country which never get carried away with lucreative offer no matter which country is belonging to and hence India has choose to have a careful analysis of Nucler Pact and its derive yields.

 

[Neo]

India shrugs off US nuclear accord warning​

* Official says India will follow own timeframe to implement the deal​

NEW DELHI: India’s foreign secretary on Thursday said he was working to seal a civilian nuclear deal with the United States, but cautioned that he did not see a deadline based on the US political calendar.

The remarks came after US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday said that “the clock is ticking in terms of how much time is available to get all the different aspects of an agreement implemented” in a reference to US elections due in November 2008. Indian

Timeframe: Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said India would follow its own timeframe to implement the deal, which has been stalled by the national government’s communist allies.

“We are not looking at a deadline. We know the timetable, we know what to do,” Menon told reporters after talks in New Delhi with US Under Secretary of Commerce Mario Mancuso on boosting bilateral high-technology trade. He said India hoped to conclude its ongoing negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, on various aspects of the agreement. “The government is trying and hoping to wrap up the agreement with the IAEA as soon as possible (but) these are negotiations.... They take two hands to clap,” the Indian diplomat said.

The pact still needs approval from the IAEA to place India’s civilian nuclear reactors under UN safeguards as well as from the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group, which regulates global civilian nuclear trade. Mancuso later told reporters that Washington believed it was in “India’s interest” to conclude the nuclear agreement. He said Indian approval of the pact would “underscore the level of trust and depth in the relationship” but denied that Washington was exerting undue pressure, saying it was content to “let the process work its way out.”

Last week US senator Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, also warned India the agreement had to come before the Senate for approval no later than July. The White House said Tuesday there was a “bit more time” in the US political calendar before President George W Bush leaves office, but Gates warned in New Delhi that it depended on when the Senate went on recess for the US elections. afp

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[Spring Onion]

US confident that N-deal will be completed5 Mar 2008, 1334 hrs IST,PTI
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NEW DELHI: Pressing India to conclude agreement with IAEA and seek waiver from Nuclear Suppliers Group by May, the US on Wednesday voiced confidence that the deadline will be met despite stiff political opposition here.

Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher maintained that the Hyde Act will apply in terms of allowing the US Administration to pursue civil nuclear cooperation with India but refused to clearly spell out the fallout on the agreement if India were to conduct an atomic test.

"The time is short... The time is tight, very tight and there is lot of work to be done," Boucher told a press conference here when asked about the fate of the nuclear deal.

The US official, who discussed the status of nuclear deal with Indian officials, said realistically, New Delhi should firm up Safeguards Agreement with IAEA and seek waiver from NSG by May to give the Congress time to have a final vote on the agreement.

Asked whether he was optimistic, he replied in the affirmative. "We can make that happen," he said.

To a question about opposition by political parties to the deal, Boucher said the US "understands" such processes which are normal in democracies and it was for the government here to see how to "overcome" these as there is not much time.

On the status of India-IAEA talks, he said New Delhi had conveyed that it will communicate to Washington when the agreement is finalised. He assumed that it will take up to two weeks to conclude the agreement.

US confident that N-deal will be completed-India-The Times of India

 

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India, US to finetune N-draft before going to NSG5 Mar 2008, 0149 hrs IST,Indrani Bagchi,TNN


NEW DELHI: With the MEA-DAE negotiating team returning from Vienna with a draft of the safeguards agreement, India and the US will put their heads together to study the draft and work out how best to pitch the nuclear deal — which includes the July 18 joint statement, separation plan, 123 agreement and the safeguards agreement — to the 45-member Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).

This is very important, because it will be this document that the US will take to the NSG for a "clean" exemption that India wants. It will be the US that will have to do all the heavy lifting at the NSG, therefore, it's important for both sides to work out acceptable language. So while the draft is more or less done, a little bit of tweaking is still to be done.

Of course, before that, the government has to get the draft cleared by the UPA-Left coordination committee. Left had allowed the government to go to the IAEA in exchange for a commitment that it would be shown the draft before it was taken to the NSG.

However, what is already making news in the international nuclear circuit is the "speed" with which India and the IAEA have worked out an agreement. Countries like the US and China took several years to complete their own safeguards agreements, so getting it out in under five months with such a difficult brief is "commendable", sources said.

The safeguards agreement was a difficult one, because it entailed working out a unique template for a non-NPT signatory but with a clear nuclear weapons programme. Besides, the agreement is no ordinary one. Apart from the technical specifications, India wanted its rights under the 123 agreement — of fuel supplies etc — to figure in the agreement. This made things doubly difficult.

The final product is likely to see the facility-specific safeguards extended to clusters of facilities. Sources said these would be reactor-related "upstream facilities". This was the easy part. Then came the centrepiece of the safeguards pact — the dedicated reprocessing facility. The pact hammered out the procedures for monitoring of materials and their safeguards within the dedicated facility. The IAEA will maintain a great degree of oversight over the construction of the facility.

In the "sensitive" areas like fuel supply assurances, India and the US will work with a set of "friendly" suppliers of nuclear fuel to India, in case of any disruptions. Ultimately, the safeguards will not be as intrusive as NSG members, particularly the Europeans, would like. This might make it tough going at the NSG, as well as at the US Congress.

India, US to finetune N-draft before going to NSG-India-The Times of India

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

When the deal happens, then one can talk.

Right now, it is woolly.

 

[Neo]

India must hurry on nuclear deal: US​

* Boucher tells India to complete all steps before elections in US​

NEW DELHI: The United States Wednesday urged India to quickly complete all steps required to conclude a civilian nuclear technology deal with Washington before the US presidential polls in November.

“Time is very tight” to get the deal through the US Congress before the United States goes into election mode, US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, Richard Boucher, told reporters in New Delhi. “I am certainly aware that things fall apart ... but on the other hand, my job is to make things work. What I am focused on right now is how to make things succeed. We both want this to happen,” said Boucher, who is on a two day visit here.

“We are kind of playing in overtime right now,” added the diplomat, the latest in a line of US officials who have recently told India to move ahead with the deal. The agreement, which would give New Delhi crucial access to civilian atomic technology even though it has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, requires final approval of the US Congress - where it currently has bipartisan support.

But before that, India needs approval from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to place India’s civilian nuclear reactors under UN safeguards. It also needs the approval of the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), which regulates global civilian nuclear trade. Stiff opposition from Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Communist allies, who prop up his minority Congress-led government, has held up the deal.

New Delhi has completed five rounds of talks with the UN atomic watchdog in Vienna with the Indian Express newspaper reporting Wednesday that India and the IAEA were close to finalising the text of their pact.

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[mujahideen]

Deadlock over India-U.S. nuclear deal unresolved

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's government and its communist allies failed on Monday to break a deadlock over a controversial nuclear deal with the United States, but said they would meet again next month to discuss the pact.

The communists oppose the deal as harmful for India's security and have threatened to bring the government down if it tried to push it through.

But they allowed the government to negotiate India-specific safeguards with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a crucial step in putting the deal into effect, on condition that the outcome of the talks with the IAEA will be reported to them.

On Monday, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee discussed with the communists the salient features of a draft agreement with the IAEA.

"We have sought some clarifications and we will meet again next month," Debabrata Biswas, a communist leader who attended the meeting, said. No date has been set.

Caught up in India's domestic politics, time is running out for the deal. Still to come are clearances from the IAEA board of governors and the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group.

Then, the deal, which promises India access to American nuclear fuel and technology, goes to the U.S. Congress for final approval.

The United States has said the pact may fall through if it doesn't reach the U.S. Congress by July as a short legislative calendar before the Nov. 4 U.S. election could complicate its passage.

India has said it cannot work to a deadline.

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