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U.S. Lawmakers State Opposition to India Deal
Two U.S. congressmen are seeking their colleagues’ support for a resolution stating opposition to the planned nuclear technology sharing agreement between the United States and India, Reuters reported today (see GSN, Dec. 20). Representatives Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Fred Upton (R-Mich.) last week introduced the nonbinding formal statement of congressional opinion. “The administration's move to launch nuclear cooperation with India has grave security implications for South Asia and the entire world,” Markey said. “Supplying nuclear fuel to countries that are not party to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty derails the delicate balance that has been established between nuclear nations and limits our capacity to insist that other nations continue to follow that important nonproliferation policy,” he said in a statement. “We cannot break the nuclear rules established in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and demand that everyone else play by them,” Markey added. The resolution claims the proposed deal “poses far-reaching and potentially adverse implications” for U.S. nonproliferation efforts and does little to bring India in line with U.S. objectives. It is not known when Congress, which soon breaks for a recess, would act on the measure, according to Reuters (Reuters, Dec. 21).
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