Experts blast Bush on India nuke deal
UPI
Tue, 8 Nov 2005, 12:02
WASHINGTON, DC, United States: Non-proliferation experts have blasted the Bush administration for negotiating too lenient nuclear and space cooperation deals with India.
The agreements announced at a summit meeting between President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on July 18 'if not properly clarified by Congress, are fraught with danger,' Henry Sokolski, executive director of The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center in Washington told the House International Relations Committee in testimony Oct. 26.
'Congress should delay endorsing such cooperation,' Sokolski said, until India forswears 'increasing the net number of nuclear weapons it currently possesses.'
Congress should also apply the principle of applying to India the stringent requirements of identifying 'all reactors supplying electricity to its distribution grid, all research reactors claimed to be for peaceful purposes, all spent fuel these reactors have produced' and subjecting them 'to routine compulsory International Atomic Energy Agency inspections, he said.
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