Detailed safeguards talks with IAEA only after 123 negotiations conclude
India wants fuel supply assurance issue with U.S. resolved first because american backsliding on earlier commitments has complicated safeguards picture. 26 April 2007The Hindu Detailed safeguards talks with IAEA only … Continue reading
Fall-back safeguards, NSG, sequencing remain areas of concern in nuclear talks
Here is the second and concluding part of my exclusive behind-the-scenes look of the obstacles lying in the way of the India-U.S. nuclear agreement. 26 April 2007The Hindu Fall-back safeguards, … Continue reading
In last lap of nuclear deal, India feels U.S. backsliding on prior commitments
From providing waivers for its domestic restrictions to promising lifetime fuel supplies and enabling full civilian nuclear cooperation, the U.S. seems to be having second thoughts about earlier agreements. 25 … Continue reading
Major obstacles persist in nuclear deal
Indian officials say “big problems” remain on scope of cooperation and termination conditions, with the U.S., inter alia, demanding inclusion of a “right of return” clause in the 123 agreement. … Continue reading
Under siege, Iran ups the ante
The ‘uncontrolled chain reaction’ predicted by the IAEA chief when sanctions were first imposed continues, with no terminal state in view other than conflict. 11 April 2007The Hindu Under siege, … Continue reading
The 123 talks did not go well
Reuters reports Nicholas Burns — the American Under Secretary of State and the Bush administration’s point man in its nuclear dealings with India — sounding less than enthusiastic about the … Continue reading
Fissile treaty is India’s next challenge
If the Conference on Disarmament really manages to get its act together as Reaching Critical Will and Jeffrey Lewis of armscontrolwonk and the Belfer Center reckon it might, the Indian … Continue reading
No place to hide as nuclear deal enters last lap
The `123 agreement’ is important not in order to facilitate nuclear imports from the U.S. but because it will form the template for changes to the Nuclear Suppliers Group guidelines. … Continue reading
More on Rademaker, India and Iran
Abbas Edalat of the Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran interviewed me last week on my story about a former senior Bush administration offcial’s admission that India’s anti-Iran … Continue reading
Spinning its way to conflict again
Despite the Bush administration’s hysteria, there is nothing in the Iranian nuclear programme that requires steps so drastic as sanctions and war. Dialogue without preconditions, combined with inspections, is the … Continue reading
India to hand over draft 123 agreement to U.S. next week
Given the stony silence that has greeted Indian queries and requests for clarification on certain provisions of the Hyde Act, major differences remain on testing, fuel guarantees and reprocessing rights. … Continue reading
So now we know for sure…
that India’s votes against Iran at the IAEA in 2005 and 2006 were ‘coerced”. For that’s exactly what Stephen G. Rademaker, a former senior official in Bush administration, admitted at … Continue reading
Déjà vu on the Korean peninsula
After first pushing North Korea to test a nuclear weapon, the Bush administration has settled for a deal it could have had in 2002 or 2005. Does the new policy … Continue reading
Iranians rally in defence of right to nuclear energy
Show of popular support boosts embattled President 12 February 2007The Hindu Iranians rally in defence of right to nuclear energy Siddharth Varadarajan TEHRAN: In a spectacle that was part scripted … Continue reading
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