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India gets NSG waiver by consensus, A Historic decision MIL/IANS, Sep 6, 2008. Author: IR Summary Vienna: September 6, 2008 – IR Summary/IANS – Dr. Raj Baldev, Cosmo Theorist from India, who is also the Chairman of National Integration Assembly (NIA), a World Peace Mssion Body, wrote many articles in this International Reporter on this issue and gave his view and predicted that the clearance of the Indo-US Nuclear Deal shall definitely go through. Dr. Raj Baldev is a multiple personality with different disciplines, and is also known as Nosterdom of India for his predictions, he is well noted personality in scientific and spiritual areas. As predicted by him, exactly the same way and on the same clause the deal was cleared. India today got a great victory, retained its peace loving tradition, prestige, its glory, its foreign policy, the UPA Govt. Manmohan Singh as PM and Mrs. Sonia Gandhi as President of the UPA, India and its people, all MPs who gave victory to Manmohan Singh’s Govt. to survive the Govt. all deserve hearty congrat. The US diplomats who worked hard to achieve this target equally deserve this felicitation, who did their best and kept the glory of their country at its highest peak, and did not let it go down. Great felicitation goes to President Bush and Manmohan Singh jointly, who stood like a rock and got what the world thought it to be impossible. In a historic moment that ended more than three decades of nuclear isolation for India, the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group Saturday rewrote their guidelines to resume global nuclear trade with New Delhi. The NSG's decision to grant India a clean waiver from its existing rules, which forbid nuclear trade with a country which has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), came this afternoon today after three days of intense diplomacy by the US and India in the nuclear cartel that controls the global flow of nuclear fuel and technologies. The nuclear deal is now headed for the US Congress, which meets September 8 to discuss an approval for the 123 India-US bilateral agreement which will bring the landmark nuclear deal to its closure over three years after it was first conceptualized. The two countries are expected to formally sign the bilateral pact, likely when Manmohan Singh goes to Washington towards the end of September, that will restore nuclear trade with the US after a gap of 34 years. Economic sanctions were imposed by the US and the rest of the world when India first conducted its nuclear test in 1974. The NSG's waiver also frees India to sign bilateral civil nuclear cooperation agreements with France and Russia, leading advocates of the nuclear deal, who also used their clout to win over sceptics in the nuclear cartel. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is set to sign bilateral civil nuclear cooperation with France when he goes to Paris for bilateral talks Sep 30 after attending the India-EU summit in the coastal resort town of Marseilles. The bilateral civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Russia, which was finalized last year and iniatialled early this year, will be signed when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev comes to New Delhi in November this year. The NSG had extended their two-day meeting in Vienna Friday by another day after marathon negotiations that went well past midnight failed to bring sceptics around to back the nuclear deal. Some sceptics in the nuclear club like Austria, Ireland and New Zealand, known for their hardline non-proliferation stance, resisted till the last minute appeals by the US to accommodate India inside the global non-proliferation tent. Austria and New Zealand, which were also supported by Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Switzerland, had insisted that provisions be included in the draft on the proposed waiver that will allow NSG to terminate nuclear business with India if it conducted another test. India's External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's statement Thursday re-affirming New Delhi's commitment to a "voluntary moratorium" on future testing boosted India's case in the NSG and was praised as "very significant" by NSG. "This is a very significant statement which was discussed by members of the NSG and praised and welcomed by those in attendance," US Assistant Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs John Rood told reporters at the end of the of Friday's morning session of the NSG. He added: "On the basis of this a positive momentum has been generated in the discussion and as I said before we remain committed to achieving the objective and remain optimistic that we can achieve that." "We remain committed to a voluntary, unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing. We do not subscribe to any arms race, including a nuclear arms race," Mukherjee said in his statement issued in New Delhi before the NSG met for the second day in Vienna.
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