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Thursday, July 30, 2009

United States defence pact won't compromise India: Prime Minister

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday cleared the air on a controversial defence pact with the US that empowers Washington to inspect sensitive Indian military installations where US-sold equipments are deployed.

He said there was no provision in the end-use monitoring agreement (EUMA) for on-site inspections or granting of teh US access to any military site or sensitive areas.

The PM told Lok Sabha there was no provision in the EUMA for any unilateral action by the US.

Singh said, "India has the sovereign right to jointly decide the verification procedure.

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Sonia takes centrestage

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Consensus building within the UPA on the India-US nuclear deal in defiance of the Left and at the risk of early elections is proving to be difficult even with Sonia Gandhi taking centrestage to resolve the vexed issue.

The UPA leaders who drove down to 10 Janpath on Monday included NCP's Sharad Pawar, RJD's Lalu Yaday and LJP's Ram Vilas Paswan. Pawar was later closeted at his residence with CPM general secretary Prakash Karat for over an hour.

Coupled with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's vigorous defence of the deal, the outcome of Sonia's meetings with the UPA allies made doubly difficult her task of blending national interest with the political interests of the coalition she presides over.

In separate interactions with Sonia, the allies backed the deal but advocated a dialogue with the Left to avoid early elections. Weighing heavily on their minds were the rising prices, without controlling which they saw little prospects in the polls.

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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Brown wants India to be a bigger global player

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BRITISH PRIME Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday he hoped that India would join a proposed standby, rapid response international team to provide both civilian and military support to help failing states get back on their own feet. In an exclusive interview to the Hindustan Tirnes, Brown said when dealing with a broken-down state or a conflict zone, there was need not only for peace, but also for reconstruction and development. Supporting India's case for the lifting of restrictions imposed by the Nuclear Suppliers Group on civilian nuclear commerce, Brown said Britain would also back India's entry into the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development-led Financial Action Task Force to combat terrorism funding. Brown hinted that the West, which had backed Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in the war against terrorism, would look at the country closely after the February 18 general elections. "We have see how the polls are conducted," he said. "We're always...

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Friday, November 30, 2007

Malaysian minister snubs Karunanidhi

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"This is Malaysia, not Tamil Nadu." THAT'S WHAT Malaysia's Justice Minister Nazri Aziz had to say after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi expressed his "pain" at the way Malaysian policemen thrashed ethnic Indians last Sunday Aziz told Karunanidhi to mind his own business after the chief minister complained about Malaysia's treat- ment of its ethnic Indian minority, a chunk of which is made up of Tamils. "This has got nothing to do with him... lay off," Reuters quoted Aziz as saying. In Chennai, Karunanidhi defended himself saying, "I don't want to reply to his (Aziz) remarks. It is my duty to defend Tamils.

If there is any punishment for doing the duty, I am prepared to accept it." The issue disrupted proceedings in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, with MPs cutting across party lines asking the Centre to take up the issue with the Malaysian government. Speaker Somnath Chatterjee rejected this demand saying that members should not say anything that would affect relations with the friendly country Earlier: the chief minister wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking him to intervene on behalf of ethnic Indians, who gathered in a 10,000strong rally to protest against their living conditions in Malaysia last Sunday.
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