Bush and Indian PM cheat India on 123
26 pages of written answers have been publicly released by a senior United States Congressman. The administration’s January 2008 letter to the House Foreign Affairs Committee - made public by Representative Howard L Berman, bring out the following:
I give only the headlines. For detailed reading click for the link at the end from rediff.
1. The US has given no binding fuel-supply assurance to India.
2. No US consent to India’s stockpiling of lifetime fuel reserves for safeguarded power reactors.
3. US civil nuclear cooperation is explicitly conditioned to India not testing ever again.
4. The US has retained the right to suspend or terminate supplies at its own discretion.
5. The letter makes clear that the 123 Agreement has granted India no right to take corrective measures in case of any fuel-supply disruption.
6. The Bush administration’s letter states that the 123 Agreement fully conforms to the Hyde Act provisions
7. The letter assures Congress that the ‘US government will not assist India in the design, construction or operation of sensitive nuclear technologies.’