Last Chance: Nuclear Suppliers Group Sharon Squassoni, Proliferation Analysis
This week, a group of forty-five countries has the last chance to prevent a deal which threatens to cause serious and long-lasting damage to the world's nuclear nonproliferation regime.
In a special meeting on August 1, the 35 representatives of the International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors gathered in Vienna for the first of several meetings designed to push through nuclear trade with India before the end of the Bush administration and the Singh government. Several countries reportedly objected to elements of a new safeguards agreement designed to open some of India's nuclear facilities to international inspection.
* Minding the Gaps: U.S. & India Views on Nuclear Cooperation
* Text of Revised U.S. NSG Proposal on India
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Atomic Supplier States Urged to Hold Line on India
Paul Eckert, Reuters The Nuclear Suppliers Group should stay firm in rejecting a U.S. bid to lift a ban on nuclear trade with India, experts said on Tuesday as an official document underscored gaps between the Americans and the Indians on key aspects of their landmark atomic deal. http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN0233181820080902
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