The Nuclear Deal

[Marathaman]

The fact that India opposes Iranian nukes has nothing to do with the nuclear deal or US pressure.India would have opposed it anyway.
so I really don't see the point of that.

But yeah. we better not start getting influenced by the US.

 

[intruder]

But yeah. we better not start getting influenced by the US.

Ouuchhhh... you will hit the nerves .....

 

[Neo]

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Most Indians back US N-deal​

NEW DELHI: A majority of Indians support a civilian nuclear accord with the United States, which is facing stiff political opposition and threatening the government’s survival, a poll said Tuesday.

Sixty-three percent of those who know about the deal wanted it to move forward, a survey conducted by Gfk-Mode research agency found. However almost 44 percent of the 12,179 respondents to the survey for the private NDTV news network said they were not aware of the complicated deal.

The 63 percent who reacted positively said they trusted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the deal, under which India will get access to nuclear fuel and technology for civilian use after three decades under embargo. An overall 65 percent said they did not want Singh to resign.

The communist allies of his government have attacked the deal, urging the Congress-led administration not to seek to operationalise the accord by opening negotiations with international groups. The left parties, who oppose strategic ties with Washington, say the nuclear agreement threatens India’s sovereignty.

The persistent opposition from the communists has raised concerns that Indian may be headed for mid-term elections if the leftists withdraw their support from the government. The NDTV poll found that four leftist parties would lose ground while the ruling Congress would gain if snap elections were held today.

The main opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - which was also initially opposed to the deal but has softened its stance - also would lose seats, the survey said.

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

 

[Bull]

Well the middle class always was pro US.

 

[Neo]

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Australian uranium sales to India will be illegal​

By Khalid Hasan

WASHINGTON: Australia, which has announced that it will sell uranium to India, will be violating its international legal obligations if it does so, according to Leonard S Spector of the California-based James Martin Centre for Non-proliferation Studies, “The question of whether Australia can legally export uranium to India is no longer in doubt. It cannot,” he said.

According to him, official records show that Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer told the Australian Parliament unambiguously that the 1985 South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty bans Australian uranium exports to states like India.

Downer made the statement in 1996, during consideration of uranium exports to Taiwan. The point was repeated before Parliament in 2001 by a more junior Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade diplomat, presumably with Downer’s authorisation, in conjunction with nuclear exports to Argentina, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Taiwan. Australia signed the treaty in 1985, which entered into force in December 1986.

Despite earlier statements, on August 16, 2007, Prime Minister John Howard announced that Australia is prepared to sell uranium to India, ending a long-standing embargo. According to Spector, the announcement anticipates a controversial change in international nuclear trade rules being sought by the United States to permit peaceful nuclear cooperation with India, pursuant to a July 18, 2005, agreement between US President George Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Under the 1996 and 2001 determinations by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, however, Australian uranium sales to India would be a violation of Australia’s treaty obligations.

The South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty bans nuclear testing in the region. But it also prohibits parties from making nuclear exports to states, like India, that have refused to place all of their nuclear activities under monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency. The shorthand for these comprehensive inspections is “full-scope safeguards,” Spector explained. India declared itself a nuclear power in 1998.

But under the 1968 nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), only countries that detonated nuclear explosions before 1967 — the United States, Russia, the UK, France, and China — are considered legitimate nuclear weapon states. All other countries are considered non-nuclear weapon states.

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

 

[PakForce Unlimited]

Indian government may approve demands of communist allies ​

NEW DELHI: Indian government has announced to form a committee to review the objections raised by communist parties on the agreement for civil nuclear cooperation with the US and to make conditional the decisions of the implementation committee on this agreement.

After the meeting between the ruling party Congress and the communist parties in New Delhi, foreign minister Parnab Mukharji told the journalists that the action regarding the implementation of nuclear agreement would be taken after the decision of the committee.

This committee will review the impacts of the nuclear agreement on foreign policy and security cooperation.

The communist parties opposing the strategic cooperation with America said that the nuclear agreement is a danger for the security of India.

If these parties, included in the ruling alliance, discontinue their support to the Congress then there may be a possibility of premature elections in the country.

Link: Indian government may approve demands of communist allies

 

[bhangra12345]

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Australian uranium sales to India will be illegal​

By Khalid Hasan

According to him, official records show that Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer told the Australian Parliament unambiguously that the 1985 South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty bans Australian uranium exports to states like India.

The South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty bans nuclear testing in the region. But it also prohibits parties from making nuclear exports to states, like India, that have refused to place all of their nuclear activities under monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

Let me guess, India is in south pacific ocean?

 

[bhangra12345]

SOUTH PACIFIC NUCLEAR FREE ZONE TREATY

the treaty

APPLICATION OF THE TREATY

1. Except where otherwise specified, this Treaty and its Protocols shall apply to territory within the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone.

This is the application.

ARTICLE 4

PEACEFUL NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES

Each Party undertakes:

(a) not to provide source or special fissionable material, or equipment or material especially designed or prepared for the processing, use or production of special fissionable material for peaceful purposes to:

(i) any non-nuclear-weapon State unless subject to the safeguards required by Article III.1 of the NPT, or

(ii) any nuclear-weapon State unless subject to applicable safeguards agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Any such provisions shall be in accordance with strict non-proliferation measures to provide assurance of exclusively peaceful non-explosive use;

(b) to support the continued effectiveness of the international non-proliferation system based on the NPT and the IAEA safeguards system.

Though the statement talks about non-nw states, the application of the treaty is only on the south pacific region in which India is not there.