France will extend its support to India during the forthcoming meeting of the board of governors of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the 45-member Nuclear Suppliers' Group (NSG), relating to the Indo-US nuke deal. This assurance was given last week by Caron Oliviera, director of external relations of French Atomic Energy Agency, to M R Srinivasan, a member of Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and former chairman of AEC.
www.radicalcartography.net/nuclear_full.png North Korea was at the receiving end of global condemnation after it announced that it carried out its first underground atomic weapons test in 2006. The US, Japan, China and Britain were the first to criticise and demanded action by the United Nations Security Council. Barring Japan, all these countries have conducted several nuclear tests of
Prabir Purkayastha A close analysis of the draft India-IAEA safeguards agreement, and the restricted document GOV/1621, reveals that if it comes to the crunch, it is the provisions of the Hyde Act that will prevail. This is what is inbuilt in the agreement, the government's spin notwithstanding.
By sending the draft safeguards agreement to the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency before facing a vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha, the Manmohan Singh government has violated not just an assurance its External Affairs Minister gave the nation two days earlier but also the most fundamental of democratic norms.
Raising the pitch on the Indo-US nuclear deal, the BJP on Thursday slammed the Congress-led Government for "deceiving the country' by forwarding the safeguard draft of the nuclear deal to the IAEA members "even before winning a trust vote in Parliament'. "Our misgivings about the Government's approach have come true. A conspiracy is afoot to present the country a fait accompli. What has been done surreptitiously needs to be condemned. This is something that no Government should do, least of all a minority Government,' said senior party leader L K Advani.
A day after formally severing ties with the UPA, Left parties on Thursday attacked the Government for approaching the IAEA Board of Governors without proving its majority in Parliament, dubbing the move as a "shocking betrayal of moral commitment' made to the country. They vowed to make it "politically' impossible for the Government to go ahead with the nuclear deal.
NEW DELHI: Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora on Wednesday said the Indo-U.S. nuclear civil cooperation deal was very much in the interest of the country as rising energy prices of fossil fuel had made it mandatory to tap other sources of energy in order to meet the rising demand for power.
K. Venugopal Reviewing Progress: U.S. President George W. Bush with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the G8 summit in the resort of Toyako on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on Wednesday. The two leaders discussed many issues, including the nuclear deal. Mr. Bush said "it was a typical conversation among friends.'
