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India & World
By Vladimir Radyuhin
He said he would take up the issue with American leaders during his visit to the United States next week. "I always raise the problem of India whenever I meet my colleagues from other countries," the Russian nuclear chief said. He is leading a delegation to a nuclear technologies exhibition in the U.S. devoted to the 50th anniversary of the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. "There is a pressing need to review the guidelines of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and work out a special arrangement for India to allow it to cooperate with other countries in the nuclear field," Mr. Rumyantsev said. He told The Hindu that Russia was trying to impress upon the NSG the need to treat India as a special case, because it had indigenously developed its nuclear weapons' technologies, rather than receiving them from a third country; had a flawless record on nuclear non-proliferation and had no alternative to nuclear power to meet its growing energy needs. The U.S. objections have blocked talks on the issue. Russia defied the U.S. pressure to sign a 1998 agreement for the supply of two 1,000-MW light-water nuclear reactors for the Koodankulam power station in Tamil Nadu, arguing that the deal had been negotiated before the NSG slapped a ban in 1992 on the supply of nuclear technologies to countries which had not placed their nuclear programmes under "full" safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Plans to supply four more Russian reactors to Koodankulam have been put on hold pending the lifting of NSG restrictions. Washington has threatened to impose sanctions on Russia if it continued to supply nuclear fuel for the Tarapur power reactors, but Moscow went ahead with supplies. During his visit to India last year the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, reaffirmed Russia's commitment to continued cooperation with India in the nuclear field "in the framework of international rules and obligations" and called for "improving" these rules. India argues that the NSG restrictions on nuclear technology transfers to "non-nuclear weapon states" are no longer applicable to India after it de facto became a nuclear-weapon state following the 1998 tests.The problem is likely to be discussed again during the coming visit of the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to Moscow next week.
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