Indian PM offers nuclear assurance to US
19/07/2005 - 16:08:01Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, seeking US support for his country’s civil nuclear programme, assured the US Congress today that India will not spread sensitive technologies.
Singh addressed a joint meeting of Congress – an honour bestowed only on the closest of US allies – one day after US President George W. Bush said he would push for a reversal of US policy so Washington can help India’s nuclear power programme.
Any such change in policy would require congressional support.
“The field of civil nuclear energy is a vital area for cooperation between our two countries,” Singh said in prepared remarks, emphasising that India has “never been, and will never be, a source of proliferation of sensistive technologies.”
