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Times of India22 Jun 2008, 2025 hrs IST,IANS
CHENNAI: The impasse over the India-US civil nuclear deal that has been plaguing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government did not end on Sunday even after a meeting of communist leaders Prakash Karat and D Raja with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, who warned a snap poll would only benefit "communal forces".
"We have explained in detail why we cannot agree to the nuclear deal. But discussions in this matter will take place again," Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) general secretary Prakash Karat told reporters after the meeting with Karunanidhi ...
"We explained to Karunanidhi that the Left has been consistently opposing the deal. If the government goes ahead with the deal, we do not have any options," Communist Party of India (CPI) national secretary Raja said.
The Left leaders admitted that the impasse could lead to early elections that would not be good news for the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and its allies ...
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Beleaguered government awaits its fate
NEW DELHI: The fate of India’s government, torn between saving itself or a nuclear pact with Washington, will likely be decided this week with the spectre of early polls looming, analysts and leaders say.
Tensions between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Congress-led government and the four-party leftwing alliance supporting it in parliament have been running high since last July over the deal clinched with Washington in 2006.
Last week the spat worsened, with Singh appearing ready to risk his minority government and implement the pact with the United States, despite fierce objections from the communists.
The agreement would give India access to civilian nuclear technology even though it has not signed global non-proliferation pacts ...
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=225874&version=1&template_id=40&parent_id=22Left proves it’s a tough nut to crack
With Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) withdrawing the support to the UPA government on Saturday, the Left parties’ leaders calling on Tamilnadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi this evening might take the national politics by surprise.
The Left parties, right from day one, have been urging the Central government to do away with India-US nuclear deal.
But the Centre has been trying its best to get the nod of the Left relating to the implementation of the deal ...
http://newstodaynet.com/newsindex.php?id=8548%20&%20section=5 Fulfil people’s expectations, not commitment to Bush, Karat tells UPA government
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CHENNAI: Tackling inflation and handling the price rise should be more urgent issues for the United Progressive Alliance government than completing the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal, Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat said on Sunday ...
In an interview to The Hindu in Chennai, Mr. Karat objected to the government’s haste in pushing through the deal without allowing the United Progressive Alliance-Left coordinating committee on the nuclear deal and related issues to see and discuss the safeguards agreement negotiated with the secretariat of the International Atomic Energy Agency .... The text of the agreement was not shown to the committee on the ground that it was classified.
“The crisis has come,” Mr. Karat explained, “because the government suddenly now says that they have to go to the IAEA’s Board of Governors immediately. We are saying, complete the process which you committed to on November 16, 2007.” The best political solution, he suggested, is for the government to tell the United States that it cannot pursue the deal further due to a lack of political consensus ...
http://www.hindu.com/2008/06/23/stories/2008062356590100.htmLet's Get Real
23 Jun 2008, 0154 hrs IST, Kanwal Sibal
How seriously should the prospects of elimination of nuclear weapons be taken? ... A rational case for elimination exists. Nuclear weapons are in effect unusable. If during the Cold War one nuclear-armed ideology posed an existential challenge to the other, no such confrontation exists today ... The end of the Cold War presented an opportunity to adopt an agenda of elimination, but instead an agenda of consolidating the privileged position of the NWS by tightening further the non-proliferation regime for NNWS and attempting to freeze the nuclear capability of non-Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) countries like India was adopted ... But the implementation of this agenda got derailed. India and Pakistan conducted weapon tests in 1998. Counter-proliferation policies produced defiance ... Who will then take the elimination agenda forward? Not the NWS who are locked up in their mutual insecurities and suspicions. Most even reject no-first-use as a confidence-building measure. They consider reductions as fulfilment of their pledge to disarm under Article 6 of the NPT. Not the NNWS who have no means of pressure left after the permanent extension of the NPT ...
On June 9, 1988, India had proposed at the UN the blueprint of a nuclear weapons-free world. India is tempted to claim ownership of the idea as it resurfaces again in the US strategic community. But India is now a nuclear weapons state and should be cautious about too big a gap growing between its elimination rhetoric and its own nuclear reality. The more India espouses the cause, the more pressure it can invite for taking intermediate steps to prove its credentials, dented by the 1998 tests, by either signing the CTBT or making a binding commitment not to test, besides unilaterally ceasing production of fissile material ...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Editorial/Lets_Get_Real/articleshow/3154688.cmsIndia to get nuclear powered attack submarine in 2009
ISLAMABAD: India will induct 12,000-tonne Akula-II class nuclear-powered attack submarine into its Naval fleet by December 2009. India will take nuclear submarine on 10 years lease in accordance with secrete agreement amounting to $650-million stuck between India and Russia.
Violating International laws, the submarine would be armed with Agni-III and Cruise missile having range between 1,000 to 5,000 kilometers ...
http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=129472Aust to not export uranium to India
Jun 23, 2008 11:42 AM
Australia says it will not reconsider supplying uranium to India while it is not a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, despite the fact nuclear power would decrease the country's massive reliance on oil.
Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith will meet with his Indian counterpart in Canberra and said energy, including liquefied natural gas, would be among the topics discussed as he sought to strengthen the nations' relationship.
But the government had already decided upon exporting only to those countries which had signed up to the treaty and would not renege on the decision, he said ...
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/1865288Mukherjee to raise uranium issue with Australia
Canberra (PTI): India on Sunday said it will raise the issue of uranium sale with Australia as External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrived here on Sunday to carry forward the momentum in bilateral ties and ink two key treaties on extradition and mutual legal assistance in criminal matters ...
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