People's Democracy
(Weekly
Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
No. 25
June 19, 2005
(Weekly
Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
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Vol.
XXIX
No. 25 June 19, 2005 |
The
Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) issued the following
statement on June 14, 2005.
AS
reports come in of India, Iran and Pakistan setting up a joint working group to
take forward the pipeline project to bring Iranian gas to India, the United
States is stepping up its pressure to scuttle the project. The US secretary of
state Condoleeza Rice, has conveyed to the Pakistani foreign minister that the
project could violate the Iran and Libya sanctions act.
This blatant pressure by the United States should be rejected by both
India and Pakistan.
The prime minister, during his visit to Washington next month, must convey India’s stand that it will not give up this project due to American pressure.
