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Jayalalithaa opposes Nimitz docking

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CHENNAI: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary Jayalalithaa has called upon the Centre to “give up its plans to dock USS Nimitz in India’s territorial waters.”

This “would be hazardous to the people in the proximate cities wherever it is docked,” she said in a statement issued here on Tuesday. “This is a serious issue and the possible radiation hazards to the people of Chennai cannot be taken lightly…Because of the radiation hazards, many countries like Australia have denied permission” to the aircraft carrier to enter their ports.

She described as “rather specious” Defence Minister A.K. Antony’s claim that the U.S.- India Naval exchange had been on for many years and that the visit was an aspect of defence cooperation, and added that this could not be accepted.

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