[NukeNet] Congress, Bush Hand India WMD/Nuclear Materials

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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-nuclear-india-usa.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
   Bush to Sign India Nuclear Deal Into Law on
Monday
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By REUTERS
Published: December 12, 2006
Filed at 7:37 p.m. ET

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush
will sign into law on Monday a civil nuclear
cooperation deal that allows the United States to
sell nuclear technology to India, the White House
said.

Congress gave final approval on Saturday to the
legislation which the Bush administration and its
allies say will expand ties with the world's
largest democracy and open up billions of dollars
in trade for U.S. companies.

Critics say the legislation, which helps clear the
way for India to buy U.S. nuclear reactors and
fuel, will undermine efforts to curb the spread of
nuclear weapons.

But congressional sponsors said the legislation
included some restraints, such as requiring the
president to stop U.S. exports of nuclear
materials if India tested another nuclear device
as it did in 1998.

India said it views the nuclear cooperation deal
as a big step forward but it was wary of
conditions attached to it by Congress.

``The government has taken note of certain
extraneous and prescriptive provisions in the
legislation,'' India's Foreign Minister Pranab
Mukherjee told parliament.

The deal reversed 30 years of U.S. policy that had
opposed nuclear cooperation with India because the
country developed nuclear weapons in contravention
of international standards and never signed the
Non-Proliferation Treaty.