1) In blatant contravention of the assurance in the July 18 statement, the Hyde Act stops short of permitting full civil nuclear cooperation by placing restrictions on transfers of materials pertaining to uranium enrichment, reprocessing of spent fuel or production of heavy water.
2) It does not meet the "central imperative" of an "irreversible" lifting of restrictions on India as termination of cooperation can be triggered by any one of several factors such as testing, transfers by an Indian in violation of Nuclear Supplier Group or Missile Technology Control Regime guidelines, or non-conformity with any one of the numerous conditionalities imposed upon India under the legislation.
3) It requires an annual presidential "assessment" that India is in full conformity with its non-proliferation.
4) It mandates annual and detailed scrutiny of India's nuclear weapon programme.
5) It rules out the possibility of building up strategic reserves of nuclear fuel.
6) It envisages U.S. safeguards, over and above IAEA safeguards, including end use monitoring, which will enable U.S. inspectors to roam around our nuclear facilities.
7) It bans India from testing while China and Pakis and US themselves are free to do so.
8 ) It imposes restrictions on India's foreign policy on iran 9) It requires India to join the Proliferation Security Initiative as well as abide by the policies of the Australia Group and Wassenaar Arrangement.
