Dear friends, I request all of u to go thr the hyde act' text (Which is available in www.thehindu.com) For instance, it is hard to imagine that two astute and legally savvy persons than Messrs, Kapil Sibal and Abhishek Singhvi, would have allowed themselves, as government and party spokespersons, to assert repeatedly, one can be sure, to their painful discomfort, that the Hyde Act is a domestic legislation of the US with no application to India and that nothing in the 123 Agreement stops India from conducting a nuclear test.
Both statements are only superficially correct. The Hyde Act is a US domestic legislation no doubt, but it is binding on the organs of the US Government.
It requires the US Administration to enforce, with regular reports from the President to the Congress, the following conditions:
a) Any nuclear power reactor fuel reserve provided to the Government of India for use in safeguarded civilian nuclear facilities should be commensurate with reasonable reactor operating requirements;
b) India must fully and actively participate in US’ and international efforts to dissuade, isolate, and, if necessary, sanction and contain Iran for its efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction, including a nuclear weapons capability and the capability to enrich uranium or reprocess nuclear fuel and the means to deliver weapons of mass destruction;
c) If India is not assessed to be fully and actively participating in such efforts, the President must sub
