"US prevails with nuclear pact for India; Despite worries, suppliers OK landmark deal" by William J. Kole, Associated Press | September 7, 2008
VIENNA - The United States gained key international backing yesterday for a bitterly contested plan to sell peaceful nuclear technology to India - a South Asia powerhouse that has tested atomic weapons but has refused to sign global nonproliferation accords.
Washington said the landmark deal, which still needs US congressional approval, will place India's nuclear program under closer scrutiny. But detractors warned it could set a dangerous precedent in efforts to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction.
"By establishing a 'good guys' and 'bad guys' set of rules, the decision will make it far harder to curb the South Asian nuclear and missile arms race," said Daryl Kimball, who heads the Washington-based Arms Control Association. Kimball said the deal could undermine efforts to contain Iran and North Korea.
Yesterday's approval by the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group dealt "a profound setback to the nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament system that will produce dangerous ripple effects for years to come," he said.
The group, which governs the legal world trade in nuclear components and know-how, signed off on the deal after three days of contentious talks in Vienna and some concessions to countries insistent on holding India to its promises not to touch off a new nuclear arms race.
The approval represented a major foreign policy victory for President Bush, who had made the deal a centerpiece of a major 2005 overture to India.
But not for the rest of the world.
The trade waiver paves the way for a US reversal of more than three decades of policy. India has been subject to a nuclear trade ban since it first tested an atomic weapon in 1974. The country conducted its most recent test blast in 1998.
In a separate development yesterday, Rice said that now is not the right time for the United States to move forward on deal for civilian nuclear cooperation with Russia. Her comment increased speculation that Bush is planning to punish Moscow for invading Georgia, a former Soviet republic, by canceling the agreement.
Can you say HYPOCRISY, readers? Because that is U.S. GOVERNMENT POLICY!!!!
Initially, more than a dozen nations including China and Japan sought to block approval by the nuclear group, which operates by consensus. But in negotiations that began Thursday, that bloc dwindled to three holdouts - Austria, Ireland, and New Zealand - who expressed grave misgivings about bending the rules to accommodate US sales to India.
See how the Zionist-controlled, agenda-pushing, AmeriKan MSM COVERED UP the amount of U.S. ARM-TWISTING and PRESSURE, readers?
But you can believe AmeriKa's dogshit press!!!!
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