Sorry. IAEA has NOT mentioned CLEARLY that it will NOT interfere in India's nuclear programme.
Please point it out in the safeguards text. Read the above story again -- "the agency shall implement safeguards in a manner designed to avoid hampering India's economic or technological development, and not to hinder or otherwise interfere with any activities involving use by India of nuclear material, non-nuclear material, equipment, components, information or technology produced, acquired or developed by India independent of this agreement for its own purposes"
Hope you can read and understand the English language... My points: a) the keyword is 'designed to avoid'... it does not mean a clear NOT.. it means it will avoid wherever possible.. b) what it will attempt to 'avoid'? India's economic or techonological development.. Where does it say it will ALLOW India's military programme to go on? c) to qualify to be spared the safeguards, the material should have been procured from a source outside the purview of the safeguards.... pray tell me where is India going to get its Uranium from outside the purview of attracting these safeguards?... If it could, it would have done without signing these safeguards, couldn't we?.. :-)
So you may jump up and down, give out all sighs or relief, and demonstrate any song and dance, but the truth remains that India is going down a path which is full of brambles...
Going down that path in such a hasty manner, with a cob
