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April - 2006 - issue > In Focus
Bush Charms India
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After the talks with the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Bush said: “It’s a necessary agreement. It’s one that will help both the countries.”
The deal will help India build new reactors and gain access to uranium to power its reactors. Even as India will have to split and designate its reactors as civilian and military and open them for international inspection which has been opposed by the opposition parties and a section of Indian media who call it a surrender to the U.S.
Despite the announcement by Bush, the deal doesn’t come through easily. The Congress will have to pass the resolution, which looks like a difficult job given that India is a non-signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Those opposed to the deal, in the U.S. Congress and elsewhere, disagree.
Many supporters of the NPT believe the deal ignores India’s nuclear weapons program. In India, too, critics have alleged that the country’s tradition of non-alignment is being eroded as it forges closer ties with the U.S.
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