Simply putting those statements in the preamble of the safeguards agreement does not recognise you as a Nuclear status. What does that benefit India by this statement in Preamble?? Does it provide them the same rights as a nuclear weapons state in the safeguards agreement with IAEA? No; Countries which are recognised as nuke state accept only "voluntary", "revocable" inspections, with just a total of 11 facilities in the U.S., China, Britain, France and Russia currently open to IAEA inspection. The IAEA conducts only token inspections on these facilities offered for safeguards. Moreover, these five nuclear powers have the sovereign right to terminate their safeguards agreement with the IAEA. This is precisely the reason India objected to and did not sign the NPT citing discrimination between Nuke have's and have nots (then). Whereas what India has come out with the IAEA is "Irrevocable" IAEA inspection and in addition to that US inspection as well. Also there is no right with India to voluntarily terminate the agreement and walk off. So what is the point in making a cursory mention in the preamble that we have a Nuke facility? It doesnt mean anything. The Govt knows this, the IAEA knows this, the NSG and the US knows this. This preamble is only to hogwash the Indian public.
