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Nuke deal or a treaty?
by Rajendra Nayak on Jun 26, 2008 06:40 PM

A deal is 'Soudh' in Hindi wherein one party gets a favour in the form of consideration and there is a 'promisor' and a 'promisee'. Whether it is a contract between India and US or is it a treaty between the nuclear fuel owning countries and India. This is because those who have fuel say that they are not going to sell (Russia has supplied as of today's news)nuclear fuel to India until and unless we sign with US.
Instead we can sign an agreement with all the nuclear fuel suppliers that we will not make weapons from that fuel. It is alright but no inspection of our sites because we have all the responsibilities as the biggest democracy on earth.
Since this is a contract, then the other party cannot be bullied into agreement which is then a void contract.
If it is a treaty then we have to just ratify as and when we want to do. Why dissolve parliament and spend about 40 to 50K crores and take the inflation to 20% or more.
Let the treaty be ratified later as we have done in patent and other treaties. There is no life and death situation for 1 billion Indians to ratify a treaty within a particular time.
US government is not the only supplier of Nuclear material or nuclear plants. These are sold by sellers/manufacturers/businessmen through some brokers. Why US congressmen and officials get involved is not understood. Are there any businessmen of India involved to make this deal to cut the prices? If involved they will cut the prices because we require 40 to 50 N-plants.

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