We have clean waiver on nuclear trade: Pranab

September 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee n Tuesday said that India should consider nuclear energy as a ource to overcome power shortage and fuel economic growth. Mukherjee said this while addressing an international conference n 'Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy' in the national capital.

September 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei on Tuesday praised India for promoting peaceful tilisation of Atomic energy. Addressing International conference on 'Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy' in New Delhi, he said India had successfully harnessed nuclear technology in fields of radiation, nuclear medicine and agriculture and was a role model for developing countries.

July 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Friday said the G-8 resolution restricting the transfer of enrichment and reprocessing (ENR) technology to countries outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty fold was "not a legally binding document" and hoped individual nations would implement civil nuclear pacts with India on a bilateral basis. It was a "political statement and not a legally binding document", External Affairs Minister S.M.

July 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - External Affairs Minister SM Krishna today informed the Rajya Sabha that individual nations will implement civil nuclear agreements with India on bilateral basis as the G8 resolution on curbing transfer of enrichment and reprocessing technology to non-NPT signatory countries was not a legally binding document. Allaying concerns over the End User Monitoring Agreement (EUMA) with the US, Krishna said it does not limit India's sovereign choice of whether, where and what weapons we choose to buy for our national defence.

July 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress party has maintained that the farm loan waiver scheme had received support from diverse quarters. Commenting on a remark by Secretary to the President of India, Christy Fernandes, that Pratibha Devi Singh Patil was instrumental in the implementation of the loan waiver scheme, Congress spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that the scheme was party's brainchild.

July 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Downplaying the claim that President Pratibha Patil was behind union government's ambitious farm loan waiver scheme, the Congress party has maintained that inputs for the scheme had from diverse quarters. Commenting on a remark by presidential secretary Christy Fernandes that Patil was instrumental in the implementation of the scheme; Congress spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi maintained that the scheme was party's brainchild.

July 23rd, 2009 ON BOARD SPECIAL AIRCRAFT - Unfazed by the G8 restrictions on transfer of enrichment and reprocessing technology (ENR), External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Thursday said India will proceed according to the clean waiver it has received from the Nuclear Suppliers' Group (NSG).

July 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former Karnataka chief minister and Lok Sabha member H.D. Kumaraswamy Monday urged the central government to "once for all waive the entire loan component of small and marginal farmers" to start lending process for them on a clean slate.

July 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - France has assured India that it was ready for full civil nuclear cooperation with India, including transfer of sensitive technologies, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told parliament Friday. (French) President Sarkozy was categorical in asserting that France is ready for full civilian nuclear cooperation with India, Singh said here Friday.

July 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON - Unfazed by the G8 ban on enrichment and re-processing (ENR) technologies, India is set to take its civil nuclear trade with the US forward by offering American companies two nuclear parks during Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's five-day visit to the country starting Friday. Clinton's first visit to India after she became the Obama administration's chief diplomat begins in Mumbai Friday night.

July 14th, 2009 PARIS/NEW DELHI - The G8 declaration on inhibiting the transfer of enrichment and reprocessing technologies (ENR) to those countries who have not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) would have no effect on India, Indian officials said here ahead of the meeting between Prime Minsiter Manmohan Singh and French President Nicolas Sarkozy Tuesday. "We are receiving no help from anybody," official sources said.

July 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Pointing to the "clean waiver" obtained from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), India Monday declared that it was "not concerned over what position the G8 takes" on not transferring nuclear technology unless India signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). "We have a clean waiver from the NSG.

July 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India is concerned over the G8 declaration "to curb transfer of enrichment and reprocessing (ENR) technology", which can undermine the "clean" waiver it has obtained from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), and plans to take this up during US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit here later this month. The G8 declaration adopted at the L'Aquila summit in Italy commits the world's most developed eight countries, which are also members of the NSG, to ban the transfer of ENR items to countries which have not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

May 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - More than eight months after the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) granted waiver to New Delhi allowing the resumption of global nuclear commerce, India Monday held talks with an NSG troika comprising Germany, South Africa and Hungary. The Indian delegation, led by Vivek Katju, special secretary (Political and International Organizations), in the external affairs ministry, held talks with the NSG team led by representative of its current chair, Viktor Elbling of Germany.

February 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - India will sign a unique safeguards agreement with the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) later Monday - a key step that will enable the resumption of global civil nuclear commerce with New Delhi. India's Ambassador to Vienna Saurabh Kumar and IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei will ink the India-specific safeguards agreement in Vienna later in the day.