America wanted a civilian nuclear deal to contain India’s nuclear ambition. There was another bigger but special interest motive that Indian politicians never understood. Some influential people in charge of American political environment have recently invested very heavily in companies that can supply country like India civilian nuclear reactors. American Administration thought India will buy these reactors and the profits will be enormous for those companies. Indians like any other time thought American are naïve. Americans can be fooled. India will sign nuke deal with America and then buy all the reactors and fuel from Russia. Americans finally sensed what Indian Congress Party politicians who are pro-Russian for decades are really planning. America tried to push for a total stoppage of Indian fissile material production. India vehemently resisted and left the negotiation table on the issue. America now is pressuring India to back proposed Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT).How incompetent Congress Party got India into trouble with US - India now resists intense US pressure to back proposed Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT)
Balaji Reddy
May 21, 2006
It was a catastrophic mistake of Indian politicians especially Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh. Because of that mistake India may lose its nuclear sovereignty. It was mistake even to approach America for a civilian nuclear deal. Now America is pushing India to permanently close down India’s independent status to make nuclear fissile material. The original deal went no where and now India struggles to contain the only super power of the world. This is exactly what happens when university professors and academicians like Chidambaram and Manmohan Singh type people take control of a country like India.
According to media reports, India is resisting intense US pressure to come out and openly support the Bush administration's initiative this week to propose a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT).
Sources in South Block [office of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs] told the media that the government considered issuing a statement in Delhi yesterday, but backed off, fearing a domestic political fallout whatever stand it took on the US proposal.
Instead, it asked Jayant Prasad, India's ambassador to the UN Conference on Disarmament (CD) in Geneva, to declare an Indian position on the issue in the hope that a statement made at a meeting in Geneva will not attract public attention back home.
Prasad's statement is in one sense historic. For the first time since India's parliament unanimously opposed America's aggressive designs on Iraq, it articulated Delhi's disagreement with a policy of the Bush administration.
America's draft FMCT does not include a system to verify the treaty's compliance by its signatories. Recently, the Bush administration jettisoned America's traditional adherence to treaty verification practices and announced that it would not propose any such verification methods for an FMCT. Prasad said in his statement that any FMCT that goes into effect should "incorporate a verification mechanism" in order to provide the assurance that all states were complying with their obligations. He added, obviously with Pakistan - the world's most notorious blackmarketeer in nuclear material - at the back of his mind: "Full compliance by all states with their obligations under international instruments" to which they were party was critical to the achievement of the goals envisaged in those instruments.
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