tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post7872949564782085205..comments2024-03-01T13:51:47.721+05:30Comments on Reality, one bite at a time: Delayed, perhaps, but not quite deadSiddharth Varadarajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07721228307097170092noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-82144330362490956032006-11-18T14:19:00.000+05:302006-11-18T14:19:00.000+05:30We should not forget one reality. The only country...We should not forget one reality. The only country which supplied the Uranium fuel is Russia. We heard lot of sound bytes from US but nothing really worth while happened. This makes me really doubt US intentions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-43004579676435859582006-11-18T11:42:00.000+05:302006-11-18T11:42:00.000+05:30India’s cost of US-India nuke deal
1. India voted...India’s cost of US-India nuke deal<br /><br />1. India voted against Iran nuclear programme at IAEA. This caused the Iranians to change the price of LNG gas to $65 a barrel from $31 agreed earlier for the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline.<br /><br />2. The nuke deal is long way to go and by the time the final deal comes through, I doubt it will be acceptable to India.<br /><br />3. Now Iranian foreign minister is offering at $56 a barrel and India is thinking of signing the pipeline deal with Iranians. <br /><br />4. China is asking for Arunachel Pradesh and Pakistan is as ususal asking for Kashmir. Adding to this Pakistan wishes to keep its fundamental right to infest terrorism in India.<br /><br />All these clearly show a big weakness of the current government.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-49633970826737568882006-11-10T14:20:00.000+05:302006-11-10T14:20:00.000+05:30Let us hope that the red lines drawn by the PM (af...Let us hope that the red lines drawn by the PM (after some persuasion by some of our Ambassadors, Scientists and others) in the Parliament in March and August 2006, are successful in either warding off the "Killer Amendments" or, better still, in killing the deal itself. Even as it is, the July 2005 Agreement and March 2006 Separation Plan have at least one important inconsistency between them in respect of the National Security Exception clause that is applicable to the US but not to India.<br /><br />Nuclear commerce between India and the US/World must take place in a just and equitable manner and not with India consigned to an inferior position. In fact, having survived the technology control regime unleashed by the US and friends for so long, India must now leverage whatever it has achieved in order to get a favourable deal; surrendering India-built nuclear power plants to intrusive inspection pursued in perpetuity is not the way.<br /><br />On the other hand, with the electoral victory of the Democrats, articles have already started appearing in Indian news media (for example, see <A href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/383485.cms">here</A>) anticipating that the killer clauses might be couched in ambiguous language in the final agreement and attempting to "sell" the idea that India must learn to live with these ambiguities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com