(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India
(Marxist)
Vol. XXXII
No.
37
September
21 , 2008
September 16, 2008
The Polit Bureau
of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following
statement on September 12, 2008
US Presidential Determination
Once More Exposes Manmohan Singh Government
The Presidential Determination sent to the US Congress contradicts the
claims made by the government of India that it has got guarantees for
permanent fuel supplies and on perpetual safeguards. The covering note
of the Determination states that there are no legally binding
assurances on the US for fuel supplies. Para 2 of the determination
also makes clear that the IAEA safeguards are in perpetuity and not as
Indian officials have claimed. Thus while the US does not guarantee
assured nuclear fuel supplies, India has accepted its safeguards in
perpetuity. Further, it will be recalled that the Hyde Act had a
specific condition regarding India�s cooperation with US policy on Iran.
The government had stated that the Hyde Act was not binding on it. The
NSG waiver, quoted Pranab Mukherjee�s September 5 statement that
India would join international efforts to stop the spread of enrichment
and reprocessing technologies, an obvious reference to Iran. The
Presidential Determination reiterates this. It states �India will now
support the United States and international efforts to prevent the
spread of enrichment and reprocessing technologies to any State that
does not already possess full-scale, functioning enrichment or
reprocessing plants.� Clearly India has succumbed to US pressure to
deny Iran the rights it has as a signatory to the NPT. On all these
issues it is the Hyde Act which has prevailed. This is precisely what
the Left parties have been saying. The Bush Determination once more
proves that government of India has consistently misled the people of
this country.
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