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India declined to accept US laws banning of its nuclear test MIL/Agencies, Apr 18, 2006. New Delhi - India clarified the allegations leveled against it that it never agreed to a permanent ban on its capability of carrying out nuclear tests. The officials, however, agreed to the extent that the ban was, of course, am part of a draft put forward by US negotiators some time back. However, India totally rejected the clause of testing ban with comments that it was bound only by its existing voluntary moratorium and not by US laws. Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Navtej Sarna said on Monday, "The US had shared with India some weeks ago a preliminary draft agreement on Indo-US civil nuclear cooperation under Article 123 of the US Atomic Energy Act". There were also preliminary discussions but India gave its mind to the US that such a provision had no meaning in the proposed bilateral agreement so far India is concerned." "India is bound only by what is contained in the July 18 Joint Statement, i.e., continuing its commitment to a unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing," There is no doubt that US had inserted a clause that could end bilateral civil nuclear collaboration if India detonated a nuclear explosive device in its draft because of existing clauses in the US Atomic Energy and Arms Export Acts. India made its mind amply clear that it would not accept such a linkage in the 123 Agreement. India, in fact, declined that it could in no circumstances accept the US laws, which ban nuclear cooperation with any country that carries out a nuclear test, and hence the allegations being leveled against India have no ground.
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