America praises Manmohan Singh over nuclear pact

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Posted online: Tuesday , July 22, 2008 at 08:12:47

Washington, July 22: The White House warmly praised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for ‘soldiering on’ with a controversial US-India nuclear pact despite stiff opposition at home.

And Singh was ‘very confident’ about the agreement's prospects when he met with US President George W Bush on July 8 on the sidelines of the G-8 summit in Japan, spokeswoman Dana Perino said.

"Obviously, the politics in India have been tough to deal with, but he's been soldiering on and trying to build a consensus," Perino said.

"It will be up to their congress to make a decision as to if they're going to move forward or not with what we think is a really good opportunity for India" in the face of energy-hungry economic growth, said Perino, ahead of the trust vote in the Indian Parliament.

"There's more support here than there at this time, but I know Prime Minister Singh has been working on it and he felt very confident about the deal when he and Bush met in Toyako, Japan,” said the spokeswoman.

The deal allows India, which refuses to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to be treated as a special case on condition it separates its civil and military programmes and allows some UN inspections.

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ADVANI CAN NOT FORCE US PRESIDENT TO FOLLOW ADVANI'S COMMANDS?? by DESH on 23 Jul 2008

ADVANI IS IN DEPRESSION FOR NOT GETTING CREDIT FOR THE DEAL?? HE DID NOT SAY A SINGLE WORD AGAINST USA OR DEAL?? SO WHAT IS THE PROBLEM IF SOMEONE FROM CONGRESS SIGNED THE DEAL??

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N-deal by RB on 23 Jul 2008

It is no surprise that Mr Bush will praise Dr. Singh. It is a historic blunder that will be beneficial to both Bush and Singh. Why bother about the people of the country. Bush doesn't bother, why should his most trusted friend Singh bother? The only option left for Indian people (I am talking about those futuristic minds) is to hope that the left leaning Democratic majority US congress does not allow such imperialistic deal to pass. But we can only hope, which is not a rational thing to do.

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