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Mon Jul 29, 2013, 06:46 PM Jul 2013

U.S. senators lament lack of progress on nuclear deal

Source: The Hindu

Two influential U.S. senators have lamented that even after eight years of the announcement of the landmark civil nuclear agreement, which lifted the U.S. moratorium on nuclear trade with India, New Delhi is yet to provide a workable nuclear liability agreement that will companies to move forward.

In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, the co-chairs of the Senate India Caucus, Mark Warner and John Cornyn, said the agreement was arrived to provide U.S. assistance to India’s civilian nuclear energy programme and expand bilateral cooperation in energy.

“Yet, eight years later, the agreement has not been implemented, and we have yet to see India provide a workable nuclear liability agreement that allows nuclear companies to move forward. We need to finish what we started and realise full commercial potential of this important agreement,” the letter states.

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Read more: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/us-senators-lament-lack-of-progress-on-nuclear-deal/article4966778.ece



"Nukes for Mangoes" was one of Bush's stupidest ideas.

And he had a LOT of stupid ideas.

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