NSG update @ 1415 – The deal is done (and it’s a good deal)
At 11:56 Vienna time, the first SMS landed on the cell phone of an Indian official waiting nervously at the Intercontinental Hotel several miles away from where the Nuclear Suppliers … Continue reading
NSG Update @ 1050 on Saturday
Vienna: The Nuclear Suppliers Group is about to resume its discussions this morning on the American proposal to grant India an exemption for its restrictive trading rules. When I checked … Continue reading
Dateline Vienna: NSG update @ 2 a.m.
After a marathon day — starting at 10 a.m. on Friday and finally peeling off at two in the morning on Saturday — the Nuclear Suppliers Group plenary was still … Continue reading
Dateline Vienna: Last-ditch talks on to avert NSG dead-end
U.S., India in eleventh hour exchange of drafting language on nuclear deal as testing issue remains huge stumbling block. 6 September 2008The Hindu Last-ditch talks on to avert NSG dead-end … Continue reading
The Bush-Berman bombshell and the ghosts of Tarapur
The State Department letter is proof that America has been negotiating in bad faith.Even if the NSG grants India a clean and unconditional waiver, the country would be foolish to … Continue reading
Dateline Vienna: NSG hopeful of consensus but doubts remain
So the first day of the second meeting was not the disaster the nonproliferationist lobby was hoping for. Differences have narrowed, the ranks of the opponents — ever a shifting … Continue reading
New NSG draft has small but significant changes
The changes in the draft are not cosmetic. But they do not represent a surrender of India’s position on unconditionality either… 5 September 2008The Hindu NEWS ANALYSISNew NSG draft has … Continue reading
NSG Update 1
The meeting adjourned for lunch at 1 pm. They will now reconvene at 5 pm for an hour. Why the long break? Is there new language the Americans will try … Continue reading
Dateline Vienna: NSG meets again, amidst rumblings of uncertainty
The NSG meeting has started. Here’s the state of play. Many countries are unhappy with the new draft. And they feel the leaked State Department letter has given them ammunition… … Continue reading
A stake has been driven through the nuclear deal
An initial reaction to the latest evidence of American bad faith Siddharth Varadarajan On May 22, 2008, I wrote about HR711 and the “secret” clarifications the State Department had provided … Continue reading
Dateline Vienna: As NSG members mull new U.S. draft, fate of India deal hangs in balance
Washington must act at the highest political level to convince hold-out countries, say officials 3 September 2008The Hindu As NSG members mull new U.S. draft, fate of India deal hangs … Continue reading
Second and ‘last chance’ for nuclear deal at NSG
On the eve of the September 4-5 meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, the message from Delhi and Washington seems to be that the issue of getting a waiver for … Continue reading
What motivates the Six NSG naysayers?
[Hat tip to Idaho Samidzat] Professor Paul Nelson of Texas A&M University and a fellow of the American Nuclear Society has a theory… and concludes that none of the six … Continue reading
People’s Daily commentary on the Indian nuclear deal
In diplomacy, timing is everything. One day after the U.S. circulated a new draft proposal to grant India a waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers Group’s export rules, China’s authoritative People’s … Continue reading
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