Dear Mr. Sreenivasan, I guess you're a former diplomat for the country. It's precisely those ambiguities left wittingly open for different interpretations is the problem. It's always the interpretation of the stronger of the two parties to the agreement prevails, and in this case it is the US. PV Narasimha Rao as a strategy left many issued unattented knowing fully well that those issues get resolved on their own in due course. But he left only those that fit that consideration. Apparently Manmohan Sing is copying his mentor's style in a wrong issue unaware that the nation has to pay the price when the interpretation comes up. The best example was "Nuclear Testing" which was left ambiguous. No sooner the PM asserted in the parliament that the agreement doesn't forbid us from testing than the reply came pat from the US that the agreement would be off the moment we test. It's the American Govt., muffled those voices who said these as they do not want to add more fuel to already ragin inferno here in Delhi. Both the US and we are hoping that such day and need would not arise wherein a clarification is required. But nevertheless, it is in our interest to get it clarified. External Affairs minister may state that the Hyde Act is not binding on us. Perfectly right! But it is binding on the Govt of the day in the US. A matured agreement should address all eventualities and if it can't for whatever reason those should be adversely affecting the other but not us if those ev
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by vishal on Aug 29, 2007 03:45 PM Permalink
I fail to understand one point about Nuclear Test. If we test, the deal would be off- Let it be but till that time we can reap benifits. In fact the moment we test, we will invite sanctions again. So go ahead with deala nd go ahead with tests also when and if they become critical to our security
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by Kabeer on Aug 29, 2007 04:27 PM Permalink
Once you test you have to return all the fuel supplied by the NSG including the spent material that can be used for enrichment. Besides, when you import power generation machinery from the US based companies, there will not be a corresponding binding clause that we don't have to repay those FOREX loans to buy them in case the US cancels the agreement. You have to pay for the machinery supplied by the American firms. Besides, your power generation will come to a grinding halt overnight the moment you test. It will be economically catastrophic! There is no use having military might without corresponding economic might. That is how the erstwhile USSR lost to the US in the power politics. They had the milirary might but that they got at the expense of economic growth which they didn't have. We lose to China in that fashion then. What use of Nuclear Bomb making capability when you don't have the economic strength. Being a respectable Security Council permanent berth seeking democracy, we can never behave like North Korea.
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by saket verma on Aug 29, 2007 04:23 PM Permalink
The bone of contention is not the nuclear test but the Hyde Act.
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by sangineersha on Aug 29, 2007 03:58 PM Permalink
but this is not simple. Once deal is off, all the industries dependent on it will suffer hugely and whole economy will in doldrums. Controlling energy system of any country is the key to control that country. try and understand this simple funda.
