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IAEA Consensus On Safeguards By securing a unanimous approval at the IAEA,India has cleared the first big hurdle to the Big Deal. Action now shifts to the NSG,where India will be pushing for a waiver Our Political Bureau NEW DELHI IN A significant vote of confidence for the Indo-US civilian …
Press Trust Of India / Colombo August 2, 2008, 0:47 IST India is not satisfied with the draft prepared by the US for consideration of the Nuclear Suppliers' Group (NSG) and is pressing for modifications to ensure a "clean' and "unconditional' waiver from the 45-nation grouping. Suggesting that the draft …
INDIA A STEP CLOSER TO ENDING NUCLEAR APARTHEID Bs Reporter / New Delhi/vienna August 2, 2008, 0:29 IST The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board of governors today approved by consensus a nuclear safeguards agreement with India, calling for the application of IAEA safeguards to Indian civilian nuclear facilities. During …
Saibal Dasgupta | TNN Beijing: Prithviraj Chauhan, the Prime Minister's envoy on nuclear issue, spent an hour with Dai Bingguo, the state councilor and chief political adviser to the Chinese government on Tuesday, trying to sell India's nuclear case. But the Chinese leadership made it apparent that it will keep …
NEW DELHI, JULY 29: Picking up on the momentum gathered after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh won the trust vote last week, India and US have exchanged drafts of the "clean' exemption that Washington plans to circulate in the Nuclear Suppliers Group as soon as possible after the August 1 meeting …
Speakers recall indigenous efforts behind its commissioning CHENNAI: M.R. Srinivasan, a former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), said on Wednesday that the 123 nuclear agreement between India and the U.S. provided India "an honourable entry into the international community' of nuclear countries, and asserted that those who raised …
Siddharth Varadarajan May move amendments to draft in Board meeting New Delhi: In a four-page letter addressed to Board members of the IAEA, Pakistan has attacked the draft Indian safeguards agreement for envisaging termination conditions and fuel supply arrangements which could allow India to "divert part of [any imported] fuel …
PUTTING the nuclear deal negotiations on the fast track the US said it was planning to seek a meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers Group in the second week of August and send the nuclear deal to the US Congress by early September. This comes a day after Mr Manmohan Singh …
Debate on nuclear deal spills into political mudslinging as parties fight to gain the edge Pranab makes a spirited defence Given the rumours that have repeatedly dogged Pranab Mukherjee about his commitment to the deal, or whether he was
WITHIN minutes of the luncheon meeting of what looked like a prospective third front, CPM general secretary Prakash Karat warned the Manmohan Singh government against going ahead with the Indo-US nuclear deal if it lost the trust vote on July 22. The remark comes amidst reports that the nuclear deal …
Sandeep Dikshit NEW DELHI: Three of the country's top nuclear scientists have said that once the nuclear deal is in place, India's commercial nuclear interaction with other countries will be "firmly controlled' by Washington through the Hyde Act enforced through the U.S. "stranglehold' on the Nuclear Suppliers Group. The scientists
Vienna, July 18: Lobbying for the Indo-US nuclear deal, India on Friday briefed the IAEA board of governors and some NSG countries on the safeguards agreement amid reports there was no sign of opposition to the accord. After discussing with IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei the text of the India-specific safeguards …
Vienna, July 18: Lobbying for the Indo-US nuclear deal, India on Friday briefed the IAEA Board of Governors and some NSG countries on the safeguards agreement amid reports that there was no sign of opposition to the accord. After discussing the text of the India-specific safeguards accord with International Atomic …
THE US will supplement efforts by India to convince the International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors to give its approval for the India-specific safeguards agreement. Undersecretary of state for political affairs William Burns is traveling to Vienna to help India in its bid to explain the salient points of …
Draft reflects PM's pledges to Parliament by Arundhati Ghose With the draft safeguards agreement now with the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agnecy (IAEA), freed from the coils of the domestic politicking of poor losers and even more poorly advised opposition parties, there is a need to …
Moga, July 16 General secretary of the PPCC and former minister Malti Thapar has appealed to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to extend his party's support to the Manmohan Singh government on the nuclear deal. In a letter written to Badal today, she said, "No doubt that your association with …
Days ahead of the meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors, India will brief the 35 nations who are part of the board as well as the Nuclear Suppliers' Group (NSG) countries in a joint session. Foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon will brief the 35 members of the apex body …
