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CNN ... "Both leaders expressed their desire to see the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear issue move forward as expeditiously as possible," <spokesman> Gordon Johndroe said.
The phone call took place two days after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh narrowly survived the no-confidence vote in the lower house of Parliament. The vote was sparked by concerns from the opposition that India was kowtowing to the U.S.
The tentative deal was announced in 2006 and signed by Bush and Singh a year ago.
Under the agreement, which will need to be approved by the U.S. Congress, India would have access to U.S. nuclear fuel and technology for its civilian nuclear power plants. That would happen even though New Delhi, which tested nuclear weapons in 1974 and 1998, has declined to join international non-proliferation agreements ...
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http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/24/india.nuclear/
... Pakistan has shot off a letter to both IAEA and Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) members, warning that India’s access to increased nuclear supply would set off a nuclear arms race in the sub-continent ...
Don’t trigger N-arms race, Pak to IAEA
http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=7453&cid=2India Rubbishes Pak Talk Of Atomic Race
<India's External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee> rubbished Thursday a warning by Pakistan that the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal will lead to an atomic arms race in the sub-continent ...
His remarks came close on the heels of Pakistan sending a letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in which it warned that the India-specific agreement being finalized with the nuclear watchdog could lead to a renewed nuclear arms race in the sub-continent and jeopardize non-proliferation efforts.
In the letter, addressed to the 35-member IAEA Board and the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) consortium, it has also questioned the utmost hurry that the IAEA is showing in getting the approval for the agreement ...
Expressing "concern" over Pakistan's position, U.S. Ambassador David Mulford said Washington was talking to it and hoped Islamabad will "see things in right light" and "be cooperative."
http://www.rttnews.com/Content/PoliticalNews.aspx?Node=B1&Id=664440 Japan to look into nuclear deal
P. S. Suryanarayana
SINGAPORE: Japan, a prominent member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), will assess India’s case “in a manner that does not hinder, but
reinforces the global disarmament and non-proliferation regime.”
Disclosing this, Japanese Foreign Ministry Press Secretary Kazuo Kodama told The Hindu here on Thursday that his country “intends to actively take part in the discussions” in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the NSG within the framework of these principles.
This signals Japan’s move to shift the terms of India-specific debates in these fora from its energy-security needs to the non-proliferation aspects of its civilian nuclear energy deal with the United States ...
http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/25/stories/2008072555481200.htm IAEA board continues consultations on safeguards
Siddharth Varadarajan
... For the past two weeks, the President of the IAEA’s board, Chilean ambassador Milenko E. Skoknic, has been holding “bilateral consultations” with each of the 35 nations represented on the nuclear watchdog’s apex body to gauge their response to the Indian text.
Speaking to The Hindu on condition of anonymity since the consultation process hasn’t ended, an IAEA Board source said it was hard to speculate about what might happen during the August 1 Governors meeting when the Indian draft is taken up for approval. “Many members do not as yet have precise instructions from their governments because the text is still being analysed by them,” the source said ...
http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/25/stories/2008072560641200.htmRice keeps nuke pot boiling
Washington, July 24: When minister of state for external affairs Anand Sharma met US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice on the sidelines of the Asean Regional Forum, a shadowy figure danced around them in Singapore ...
Rice and Sharma today discussed ways to minimise a 30-day consultation period on Capitol Hill and another 45 days allotted for committee work after Bush sends the “certified” nuclear deal back to the Congress.
When Bush extracted a promise from Congressional leaders during the negotiations that led to the passage of the Hyde Act limiting the time frame for consultations and committee work, it was considered a coup in New Delhi and in the White House.
But at that time, neither side had reckoned with Prakash Karat and the potential of the Left parties to delay and almost derail the nuclear deal ...
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080725/jsp/frontpage/story_9598866.jspIndia goes to IAEA next week
NDTV Correspondent
Friday, July 25, 2008 (New Delhi)
The nuclear safeguards agreement for the Indo-US nuclear deal comes up for approval of the IAEA next Friday on August 1.
India is expecting the agreement to go through without much problem especially after the successful lobbying by Indian officials before the board.
What India is concerned about is getting a clearence from the 45-member Nuclear Suppliers Group to have free access to nuclear fuel supply ...
The US ambassador David Mulford has said Washington is looking to wrap up the entire NSG process by September ...
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080058611&ch=7/25/2008%209:32:00%20AMIndian officials' Vienna visit to take N-deal to next level
... NEW DELHI: When Indian officials from the department of atomic energy (DAE) travel to Vienna on August 1 for the IAEA board of governors meeting, they will announce the start of negotiations on an additional protocol, which will be signed with the IAEA after the safeguards agreement. The additional protocol, which is a broader inspections regime of the IAEA, is one of the steps that India has to take as part of the July 18, 2005, joint statement with the US ...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Indian_officials_Vienna_visit_to_take_N-deal_to_next_level/articleshow/3276933.cmsNow, city govt to use N-deal as poll weapon
25 Jul 2008, 0106 hrs IST,TNN
NEW DELHI: You may be paying much more for essential items and food, but for a newly rejuvenated state Congress basking in UPA's trust vote glory, inflation is not an election issue at all. Nuclear deal and how it will lead to "cheap and abundant power" is what Delhiites will be told ahead of the Assembly elections. Power and water too are no longer an issue, feels Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit ...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Delhi/Now_city_govt_to_use_N-deal_as_poll_weapon/articleshow/3276797.cms
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