Nuclear Thread - 3

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<b>IAEA Move: PM accused of lying</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Outraged by the "deceitful and duplicitous action" of the "minority" UPA regime in approaching the IAEA for formalising the IAEA safeguards text without establishing its majority in Parliament, the NDA has said the UPA Government had "lost its credibility by its actions and its words cannot be believed".   

"If the solemn declaration of the senior-most Minister (Pranab Mukherjee) about seeking a trust vote before going to IAEA can be summarily overturned, how can the Prime Minister be trusted with anything? It is capable of going back on assurances even before the ink is dry," Leader of the Opposition LK Advani told newspersons here after a meeting of the NDA to take stock of the current political situation.

Advani pointed out that barely two days back, Mukherjee had categorically declared that the Government would approach IAEA only after seeking a trust vote in the Lok Sabha and insisted that he was giving this assurance only after consulting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was abroad. "But surreptitiously, even before Singh returned to Delhi from the G8 summit in Japan, his Government has approached IAEA and the draft safeguards agreement has been circulated among 25 members of the IAEA board," Advani said
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Earlier, former Union Minister Arun Shourie briefed the NDA leaders about the highlights of the safeguards agreement between India and the IAEA. <span style='color:red'>Shourie pointed out that India had been treated as a non-nuclear weapon State and its reactors would come in for stringent and frequent inspections, which would be at the discretion of the US</span>.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->