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NSG waiver

This refers to the news that India has secured a waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers Group to carry out nuclear commerce. The Indian government deserves to be complimented for the manner in which it secured the waiver. The credit for this substantial accomplishment should go to the UPA government and the manner in which the Prime Minister handled the issue.

N.S. Sankararaman,

Toronto

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The year 2008 has been great for India in many ways. We won our first individual gold medal in the Olympics and now we have ended more than three decades of nuclear isolation. The NSG wavier will help India resume global nuclear trade. There is no doubt that it will become a superpower by 2020.

B.L. Shivakumar,

Coimbatore

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The NSG waiver is welcome because it ends the nuclear isolation India was subjected to for not signing the NPT, and paves the way for obtaining nuclear fuel from the world market. As for the Opposition’s charge that India has surrendered its right to test a nuclear weapon, the right would mean nothing when we have no uranium and cannot procure it from anywhere. The UPA government’s moratorium on testing is both a reflection of the ground reality and a moral commitment.

R.R. Ayyar,

Chennai

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The NSG waiver is, no doubt, an important development and has taken India a step closer to signing the nuclear deal with the U.S. However, the recent controversy over the Bush administration’s answers to the House Foreign Relations Committee has created a sense of insecurity among the people who support the bilateral nuclear agreement. It remains to be seen how the government allays their fears.

Siddharth Chaturvedi,

Lucknow

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The Bush administration is guilty of inconsistency on the issue of nuclear proliferation. On the one hand, it insists that international sanctions must be imposed on Iran until it suspends its legitimate uranium enrichment programme. It argues just the opposite when it comes to India. The NSG waiver undermines the international rules on nuclear proliferation. It was refreshing to see many states make clear how unhappy they were during the meetings in Vienna.

Ahamed Kabeer,

Dubai

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