06-29-2006, 09:12 PM
<b>Reject US conditions on nuke deal: BJP to PM</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"Looking at the language and the terms and conditions to be fulfilled for the deal to take its real shape. It becomes abundantly clear that American negotiators have succeeded in India getting into the CTBT regime and also signing a fissile material cutoff treaty--a draft of which has been recently introduced by the us in the Commission on disarmament in Geneva," he said
Joshi insisted that India would face a ban on nuclear testing once the deal wins US Congress approval.
Also, he voiced fears that the pact puts New Delhi at risk of losing its nuclear superiority over Pakistan.
<b>"The Prime Minister should reject the conditions that deny India its minimum nuclear deterrence and subject the country to a ban on nuclear testing,"</b> Joshi remarked.
<b>"Then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee announced a voluntary moratorium on nuclear testing after the 1998 atomic detonations. But after this deal, India will be bound by the us not to conduct any nuclear testing," </b>Joshi said.
The BJP leader, whose party has sought explanation from the Congress-led government on different aspects of the deal, insisted that the pact would subject India to us dependency.
<b>"Our strategic muscle will slip into us hands once our deterrence is reduced. The BJP reiterates that such a deal is unacceptable and cannot bind India in the future," </b>Joshi said.
He also referred to energy access that the deal promises to India calling it too big a compromise with national security.
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"India is set to purchase six 1,000 mw-plus enriched uranium reactors costing 50 billion dollars over the next years. But power generated from all nuclear sources will still not exceed six per cent of the total energy produced in the country in 2020 compared to three per cent today,"</b> he said.
Also, Joshi rejected government assertions that the pact would give India a status of a nuclear weapons state. "It's in fact just the opposite. India has agreed to be treated as a de jure non-nuclear weapons state under the NPT dispensation," he said. "The Prime Minister should have a second look at this energy capsule," he said.
<b>Joshi, who made a passing reference to iran, also alleged that the nuclear agreement sought to bind India to âpromoteâ US foreign policy</b>.
<b>"All these (factors) are repugnant to the letter and spirit of the joint statement of President George W Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in July 2005,"</b> he remarked, citing references to us policy on South Asia and China in the draft legislation on the deal to be put to vote in the US Congress.
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Joshi insisted that India would face a ban on nuclear testing once the deal wins US Congress approval.
Also, he voiced fears that the pact puts New Delhi at risk of losing its nuclear superiority over Pakistan.
<b>"The Prime Minister should reject the conditions that deny India its minimum nuclear deterrence and subject the country to a ban on nuclear testing,"</b> Joshi remarked.
<b>"Then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee announced a voluntary moratorium on nuclear testing after the 1998 atomic detonations. But after this deal, India will be bound by the us not to conduct any nuclear testing," </b>Joshi said.
The BJP leader, whose party has sought explanation from the Congress-led government on different aspects of the deal, insisted that the pact would subject India to us dependency.
<b>"Our strategic muscle will slip into us hands once our deterrence is reduced. The BJP reiterates that such a deal is unacceptable and cannot bind India in the future," </b>Joshi said.
He also referred to energy access that the deal promises to India calling it too big a compromise with national security.
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"India is set to purchase six 1,000 mw-plus enriched uranium reactors costing 50 billion dollars over the next years. But power generated from all nuclear sources will still not exceed six per cent of the total energy produced in the country in 2020 compared to three per cent today,"</b> he said.
Also, Joshi rejected government assertions that the pact would give India a status of a nuclear weapons state. "It's in fact just the opposite. India has agreed to be treated as a de jure non-nuclear weapons state under the NPT dispensation," he said. "The Prime Minister should have a second look at this energy capsule," he said.
<b>Joshi, who made a passing reference to iran, also alleged that the nuclear agreement sought to bind India to âpromoteâ US foreign policy</b>.
<b>"All these (factors) are repugnant to the letter and spirit of the joint statement of President George W Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in July 2005,"</b> he remarked, citing references to us policy on South Asia and China in the draft legislation on the deal to be put to vote in the US Congress.
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