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No new clauses in Senate version of law: Lugar

WASHINGTON: No new clauses have been written into the Senate version of the legislation pertaining to the India-U.S. civilian nuclear deal to make India unhappy, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Richard Lugar said on Wednesday.

New Delhi should be very well aware that the U.S. policy prohibited the export of enrichment, reprocessing and heavy water production technology as well as an end-use monitoring system to track nuclear technology exports to India.

It was this policy that was incorporated into the Lugar-Biden Bill and was passed by 16-2 votes in the Senate panel in June, he said. He wondered why Indian officials objected to this prohibition in the Senate version of the Bill.

He clarified that there were no conditions attached to the Bill, which was likely to be debated on the floor of the Senate in September.

The House had already voted the legislation with a thumping majority of 359 to 68 votes.

The matter came up when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee took up for consideration the nomination of John Rood to the post of Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-proliferation. — UNI

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