[Reader-list] Betrayal of Public Commitment

[radhikarajen at vsnl.net]

It is unfortunate that a PM of the nation with his persoanl agenda to please his Madam for kickbacks,  and his headmaster Bush should strive to mortgage national interest in perpetuity  in the hands of another nation which is known for its aberration of deviant behaviour to be police in the comity of nations thus undermining the United nations itself.!

  It is time for all citizens of the nation to understand the difference between "preamble" of an agreement and operating parts of the agreement, which are totally not in the nations interest. Few days , before I had pointedly asked about the safeguards against the nation and some in the list tried to gloss over kickbacks and not on the issues about future generaion being held captive in prpetuity by another nation. Hyde Act and much before, it is known to all indians how America , after the Pokhran I had cut off the supply of material for the N-plant built with national exchequer for peaceful generation of Energy,it is commendable that indian scietists indegeneously developed the fuel from thorium to keep going after enormous efforts for Trombay, Apasara reactor, thanks also to the defence deals with russia which stood with India in the hours of crisis.

  Regards.

----- Original Message -----
From: prakash ray <pkray11 at gmail.com>
Date: Friday, July 11, 2008 3:42 pm
Subject: [Reader-list] Betrayal of Public Commitment
To: reader-list at sarai.net

> *Press Statement*
> 
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> 
> * *
> 
> The Left parties have issued the following statement:
> 
> 
> 
> *Betray**al of Pub**lic Commitment*
> 
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> 
> The Minister for External Affairs, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, 
> announced on July
> 8, 2008 at a press conference that the government would send India's
> safeguards agreement to the International Atomic Energy Agency 
> Board for
> approval only if it won the trust vote in parliament. "I cannot 
> bind the
> government if we lose our majority", he said.
> 
> 
> 
> He also stated that he had consulted the Prime Minister who was in 
> Japan, in
> this regard.
> 
> 
> 
> Coming hours after the announcement that the Left parties had 
> decided to
> withdraw support to the government, this was a solemn commitment 
> to the
> country that the government would not proceed to the Board of 
> Governors of
> the IAEA till the government proved its majority in parliament.
> 
> 
> 
> It is shocking that less than twenty four hours of such a 
> statement, the
> IAEA has announced that at the request of the Government of India, 
> the text
> has been submitted to the Board for its consideration. (Annexure – 
> pressrelease of the IAEA).
> 
> 
> 
> This is a blatant violation of the assurance given by the 
> government, a
> betrayal of a moral commitment to the country.
> 
> 
> 
> What transpired in the meeting of the Prime Minister with 
> President Bush
> which led to this going back on a public pledge?
> 
> 
> 
> The Prime Minister owes an answer to the people and the country.
> 
> 
> 
> The Left parties had on July 8, 2008 asserted that it is the 
> Government of
> India which is keeping the text confidential and not the IAEA. 
> This has been
> confirmed by spokespersons of the IAEA in the last twenty four hours.
> 
> 
> 
> Subsequently, the text of the Draft India Safeguards Agreement is now
> available in the public domain. The Left parties will study the 
> Draft of the
> Safeguards Agreement and come out with our analysis and stand.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> *Sd/-*
> 
> 
> 
> *Prakash Karat                                  A.B. Bardhan
>               Debabrata Biswas *
> 
> *General Secretary, CPI(M)     General Secretary, CPI      General
> Secretary, AIFB*
> 
> 
> <http://cpim.org/statement/2008/07102008-betrayal.htm>
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